`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.

I think you're mean and hateful and stupid, and -- louder ''??

`` What else would I mean, anyways ''??

I mean, surely we've '' --

I don't mean to pry, but do they hide the swimsuit with the bubbles??

I mean: Is advertising honest??

Did, I mean ''.

`` I think I know what you mean, Brassnose '', I said.

`` No, I mean how'd you get her to do it ''??

I didn't mean to pull so hard ''.

Certainly not, I mean, no that isn't what I said ''!!

When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;

I take this to mean that the intelligent -- and therefore necessarily cynical??

I don't mean a few aesthetes who play about with sensations, like a young prince in a miniature dabbling his hand in a pool.

`` What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art.

You see what I mean??

Here I do not mean catharsis, the discharge of emotion.

I mean something more like Freud's concept of the utility of `` play '' to a small child: he plays `` house '' or `` doctor '' or `` fireman '' as a way of mastering slightly frightening experiences, reliving them imaginatively until they are under control.

Anyone who has watched children develop a taste for literature will understand what I mean.

I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.

I mean ''

`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.

`` All my life '', he said, `` I tried.

`` I hate to leave my garden '', Gavin said.

I loved my garden ''.

`` I never felt better in my life '', Fiske blustered.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.

I could see them in my sights.

I found his chest in my sights.

At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.

In my sights I watched him looming bigger and bigger.

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

I withdrew my hand.

Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.

For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.

I got a coin between my thumb and forefinger, leaned my elbows in a very natural and casual manner on top of the truck cab and flipped my little missile.

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The hoatzin is unique among extant birds in having functional claws on the thumb and index finger ( digit I and II ) on the forelimbs as chicks, allowing them to climb trees until the adult plumage with flight feathers develop.

** I. B: linguaphones ( lamellophones )( solid fixed at only one end, such as a kalimba or thumb piano ;

I Never Sang for My Father is a 1970 American film, based on a play by the same name, which tells the story of a college professor who wants to get out from under the thumb of his aging father yet still has regrets about his plan to leave him behind when he marries a younger woman and moves to California.

After a car crash that left him " unable to ' walk, see, speak, smell or taste '", he used the movement of his right thumb to write a book, I Ask the Right to Die ( Je vous demande le droit de mourir ) in which he voiced his desire to " die legally ".

Sharon Churcher and Annette Witheridge, in The Daily Mail, quote one World Bank employee's statement that " Unless Riza gives up her job, this will be an impossible conflict of interest "; the observation of " a Washington insider ": " His womanizing has come home to roost ... Paul was a foreign policy hawk long before he met Shaha, but it doesn't look good to be accused of being under the thumb of your mistress "; and Wolfowitz's response: " If a personal relationship presents a potential conflict of interest, I will comply with Bank policies to resolve the issue.

Prediction of direction of field ( B ), given that the current I flows in the direction of the thumb

Of his decision to take part, Sheen has said: " My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.

Abductor Pollicis Longus: Inserts on the trapezium and base of metacarpal I ; Abducts thumb in frontal plane ; extends thumb at carpometacarpal joint

Opponens Pollicis: Inserts on metacarpal I ; flexes metacarpal I to oppose the thumb to the fingertips

It consists of the little finger of the letter I plus the thumb and forefinger of the letter L. It is conceived of as a trigraph of the letters I-L-Y, though the letter Y ( little finger and thumb ) overlaps with the other two letters.

File: Dive hand signal Ascend. png | Ascend, or I am going up: A fist is made with one hand, thumb extended upward, and hand is moved upward to emphasize direction of travel.

File: Dive hand signal Descend. png | Descend, or I am going down: A fist is made with one hand, thumb extended downward, and hand is moved downward to emphasize direction of travel.

* I see a shark: Hand flat, fingers vertical, thumb against forehead or chest

Finally, after the reign of Menander I, several Indo-Greek rulers, such as Amyntas, King Nicias, Peukolaos, Hermaeus, Hippostratos and Menander II, depicted themselves or their Greek deities forming with the right hand a benediction gesture identical to the Buddhist vitarka mudra ( thumb and index joined together, with other fingers extended ), which in Buddhism signifies the transmission of Buddha's teaching.

It expands on the comment by Doctor Watson in The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb " Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his notice -- that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel Warburton's madness.

The little finger is extended to make the " I "; the index finger and middle finger are also raised, with the middle finger bent slightly so that the two fingers together form the " X "; the thumb touches the lowered third finger to signify the two " C " s. When a priest blesses in the sign of the cross, he positions the fingers of his right hand in the manner described as he raises his right hand, then moves his hand downwards, then to his left, then to his right.

In his autobiography I Am Not Spock, Nimoy wrote that he based it on the Priestly Blessing performed by Jewish Kohanim with both hands, thumb to thumb in this same position, representing the Hebrew letter Shin ( ש ), which has three upward strokes similar to the position of the thumb and fingers in the salute.

Baby Plucky's end tag credit is him sucking his thumb, then pulling it out to say " I wanna flush it again!