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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• 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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• Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Iron, Band, Rubber Bands

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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'm just a Westside lover, I leave females in my sheets and all my feelings in a rubber.

  Big Sean

  Feelings, Female, Lovers

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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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• I'm rubber and you're glue," I told Satan, " and everything that bounces of me sticks to you.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Glue, Sticks, Satan

  MaryJanice Davidson (2010). “Undead And Unappreciated: Number 3 in series”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• Inside, I was like: "Ha, suck my spiky rubber strap-on, vampyre hunter!

  Christopher Moore

  Hunters

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• He smoked a cigarette, standing in the dark and listening to her undress. She made sea sounds; something flapped like a sail; there was the creak of ropes; then he heard the wave-against-a-wharf smack of rubber on flesh. Her call for him to hurry was a sea-moan, and when he lay beside her, she heaved, tidal, moon-driven.

  Nathanael West

  Dark, Moon, Sea

  Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.28, New Directions Publishing

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• If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did I mention I'm not on the pill?

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Sex, Men, Trying

  Catherine Ryan Hyde (2012). “Pay It Forward”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• You suck, surprising no one!!!! If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!! You're a stupid poo-poo head! I had sexual relations with your mother! Your mother was not that good in bed! You, sir, are a wretched soul! I am rubber, you are glue!

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Mother, Stupid, Soul

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• Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it cannot order a meatpacking company to remove contaminated, potentially lethal ground beef from fast food kitchens and supermarket shelves.

  Eric Schlosser

  Softball, Animal, Government

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It’s hard to go back to the original shape.

  Haruki Murakami

  Long, Nerves, Pieces

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• He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning.

  Angie Sage

  Dragons, Smell, Needs

  Angie Sage (2012). “Physik: Septimus Heap”, p.149, A&C Black

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• You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.

  Michael Palin

  Suits, Chickens, Plans

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• does you costume involve leather?" she'd asked. and he'd said, "Actually, yeah, it might." it really did. it involved a leather dog collar, leather pants and a leash, and the leash was held by Ysandre, who was in skintight red rubber, from neck to knee high boots. she'd topped it off with a pair of devil horns and a red tridant. she'd made Shane her dog, complete with furry dog mask. ***"Breathe," Myrnin said. "I'm not much for it myself, but i hear it's quite good for humans."***

  Rachel Caine

  Dog, Leather Pants, Devil

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• One of them hissed-not the hiss of a cat, a long, steady tone-more like the hiss of air escaping the rubber raft that is all that lies between you and a dark sea full of sharks, the hiss of your life leaking out at the seams.

  Christopher Moore

  Lying, Cat, Dark

  Christopher Moore (2009). “A Dirty Job: A Novel”, p.228, Hachette UK

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