Thumb Instruction Set

Famous quotes containing the words thumb, instruction and/or set:

    Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don’t ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?
    Martin Goldsmith, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Charles Haskell, Jr. (Edmund MacDonald)

    A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map—would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.
    Mary Antin (1881–1949)

    He set the jug down slowly at his feet
    With trembling care, knowing that most things break;
    Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)