“Snip! Snap! Snip! They go so fast. / That both his thumbs are off at last.”
Heinrich Hoffman
“It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.”
David Leavitt
“It's like if you took the back of your computer off and started snipping wires -- you can't expect it to function normally if you start removing pieces and parts.”
Steve Bonney
“In any fighting without rules, there is always rule of thumb. One of them is not to be fooled by the snapping and the look of enemy.”
Toba Beta
“This isn't a hard and fast rule. It's been a rough rule of thumb for the last three years. For example, last year we had six teams of 12 players each. We had 52 residents and 20 non-residents.”
Bob Burbank
“There's no hard and fast rule, but a basic rule of thumb is that it takes a thousand acres to justify owning a combine.”
William Edwards
““A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.””
Carlos Castaneda
