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)

    “I turn my gaze
    Back to the instruction manual which has made me dream of
    Guadalajara.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “The eyes that drew from me such fervent praise,
    The arms and hands and feet and countenance
    Which made me a stranger in my own romance
    And set me apart from the well-trodden ways;”
    —Petrarch (1304–1374)