Thumb Instruction Set

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

    “Your small hands, precisely equal to my own—
    only the thumb is larger, longer—in these hands
    I could trust the world, or in many hands like these,
    handling power-tools or steering-wheel
    or touching a human face ...”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    “Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders—and even chopsticks—comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.”
    —Lawrence Kutner (20th century)

    “It’s the set of the sails and not the gales,
    That bids them where to go.”
    —Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919)