Famous quotes containing the words thumb and/or shift:
“I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller’s thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.”
—Jane Addams (1860–1935)
“Let us not be dainty of leave-taking,
But shift away.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)