Famous quotes containing the words thumb, instruction and/or set:
“I had a consuming ambition to possess a millers thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my fathers had become, during his earlier years of a millers life.”
—Jane Addams (18601935)
“Everything from airplanes to kitchen blendersand even chopstickscomes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
“Not until the advent of Impressionism does the repudiation of principles set in which opened the way for the burlesque parade of the fashionable and publicity-crazed modernities of our century.”
—Johan Huizinga (18721945)
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