Rubber Quotes

• Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'

  George Will

  Gun, Boys, Ducks

  George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

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• Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Iron, Band, Rubber Bands

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• The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Sky, House

  "Travels With Charley: In Search of America". Book by John Steinbeck, Part 2, 1962.

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• When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

  Stephen King

  Ideas, Looks, Noses

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift.... The self is malleable but elastic, snapping back to its original shape like a rubber band. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Self, Personality

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.100, Vintage

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• In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the "Mind of God" is cosmic music resonating in 11 dimensional hyperspace.

  Michio Kaku

  Play, Symphony, Mind

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• Part of growing up is learning your strengths and weaknesses. What better way to figure out that hand-eye coordination ain't your thing than by getting drilled in the mouth by a red, rubber ball? You only gotta get beaned in the face so many times before you figure out, 'I better hit the books because this is not working out.

  Greg Giraldo

  Growing Up, Book, Eye

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• With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Dark, Silence, Soul

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• I don't wear rubbers cause you can't catch it twice.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Humor, Causes

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• The most challenging scene for me was the spider scene, because I don't like spiders in real life. Even rubber ones I get really scared of.

  Rupert Grint

  Real, Challenges, Spiders

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• Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

  James Patterson

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”

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• I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

  Jamie Chung

  Careers, New Experiences, Views

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government. And it is the only institution that can mortgage your future without your knowledge or consent: government securities (and paper money) are promissory notes on future tax receipts, i.e., on your future production.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Government, Paper

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.234, Penguin

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• Sometimes I misstep into something perhaps I shouldn't, but with age comes a thick, high pair of rubber boots to wade through the barnyard. We should all have to get to the dirt and 'muck out' at some point in our lives.

  Janice Tanton

  Age, Boots, Wade

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• Today, even amongst Christians, there can be found much of that spirit that wants to give as little as possible to the Lord, and yet to get as much as possible from Him. The prevailing thought today is of being used, as though that were the one thing that mattered. That my little rubber band should be stretched to the very limit seems all important. But this is not the Lord's mind. The Lord wants us to be used, yes; but what He is after is that we pour all we have, ourselves, to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Giving, Mind

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• It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you're just looking at a blue screen all day.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Suits You, Blue, Foam

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• I would recommend if you come to Ocean Grove and you're not from around here, don't wear rubber pants, a pink shirt and a blue jacket. Leave that for Asbury Park.

  Peter Noone

  Ocean, Blue, Pants

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• The worst thing I ever wore, really, was rubber pants, but I don't think that was a cliche. They were just way too hot. Rubber doesn't breathe. I look back on my photos, and I dig them. I think I look really cool.

  Sebastian Bach

  Thinking, Hot, Looks

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• I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.

  Fred Upton

  People, Merit, Vote

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• Take off your rubber and there's one more inside her, it's not yours, who can it be?

  Slick Rick

  Unanswered Questions

  Song: Treat Her Like A Prostitute, Album: The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, 1988

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• One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place of mental processes and revolts, crimes, despairs pass off in a dribble of vague words and rubber stamp phrases without leaving a scratch on the mind of the driven instalment-paying, subway-packing mass.

  John Dos Passos

  Memories, Leaving, Mind

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• Love is like a rubber band,
  Both pull on, one release
  And it hurts the person who has held it.

  Lil Wayne

  Hurt, Love Is, Rubber Bands

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• A person who uses party as a verb is a person who will walk into a shop and walk out wearing a rubber jumpsuit.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Party, Verbs, Use

  Cynthia Heimel (1988). “But Enough about You”, Fireside

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• [On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.

  Dorothy Parker

  Ducks, Hands, Water

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• [On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Glitter, Littles

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