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Tag Name "Thimble" (11)

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[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, Into how little space a human being can be crushed? I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .
Olive Schreiner
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A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble
Remy de Gourmont
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The universe will fill your cup... if you carry a big cup, a little cup, or a thimble!
Sonia Choquette
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When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.
Warren Buffett
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My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.
Eddie Izzard
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A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.
Margaret Atwood
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I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.
Pablo Neruda
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The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
Remy de Gourmont
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Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.
Warren Buffett
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I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.
Herta Muller
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'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.
Mark Burnett