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)

    “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)

    “... the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)