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He's a million rubber bands in his resilience. -- Alan K. Simpson
Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball. -- Katarina Witt
I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul. -- Benmont Tench
I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts. -- Frank Miller
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. -- Paavo Nurmi
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
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
One is never alone with a rubber duck. -- Douglas Adams
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. -- Alan Turing
I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking. -- James Gould Cozzens
I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on. -- Victoria Wood
What is this? It is a prolate spheroid, an elongated sphere-in which the outer leather casing is drawn tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber tubing. Better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman
Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins -- Mitch Albom
Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls - family, health, friends, integrity - are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered. -- Gary W. Keller
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
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
The really great thing about my shop is that there's not one dead animal in it. ... Manolo's got a load of fabric shoes as well! We use plastic, fabric, rubber- anything but leather. I almost feel like I've been put here to show everyone that it's unnecessary. -- Stella McCartney
Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine. -- Terry Pratchett
... Lightnin' Hopkins taught us, "the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel" and Muddy Waters taught us "you don't have to be the best one; just be a good 'un" .. that just about says it all, always strive to be a good 'un... -- Billy Gibbons
When a doting person gets down on all fours and plays with the dog's rubber mouse, it only confuses the puppy and gives him a sense of insecurity. He gets the impression that the world is unstable and wonders whether he is supposed to walk on his hind legs and smoke cigars. -- Corey Ford
At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds, and at some time later, there were. Within the blink of a cosmic eye, a universe in which all was chaos and void came to include hunches, beliefs, sentiments, raw sensations, pains, emotions, wishes, ideas, images, inferences, the feel of rubber, Schadenfreude, and the taste of banana ice cream. -- David Berlinski
There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back. -- Orison Swett Marden
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps. -- H. L. Mencken
Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now men had walked upon it, rubber treads on a pearl of the gods. Perhaps it was an awareness of time passing, the last summer of the decade. Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up. -- Patti Smith
I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst. -- Florentijn Hofman
When I used to have braces, I would match my rubber bands to the season. -- Brad Goreski
I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped. -- Tracey Ullman
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
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. -- Theodor Adorno
Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself. -- Helena Bonham Carter
The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families. -- Thaksin Shinawatra
There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with a hammer. U2 sometimes can hit you over the head with a rubber hammer. -- Meat Loaf
When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements. -- Helena Bonham Carter
I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the holidays, I wrap in tinfoil so it appears to have just come out of the oven. -- Amy Sedaris
The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth. -- Joe Rogan
At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent. -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
As Indian women, we are always balancing work, life, home, etc. It's important to know that while juggling rubber balls and glass balls, the former may bounce back when you miss, but the glass balls will crack if you let them fall. So prioritise, prioritise, prioritise. -- Nita Ambani
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
I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves. -- Bob Uecker
In a movie, it's often important to have aliens whose gestures and facial expressions can be 'read' by humans. And in the days before sophisticated computer animation, most extraterrestrial bit players were guys in rubber suits. Such practical considerations forced Hollywood's hand when it came to aliens - they look like us for good reasons. -- Seth Shostak
Well... I had braces and I had to wear headgear! I loved my braces, actually. For me, they were like a piece of jewelry! Instead of the silver or pewter I had gold braces. It was so much fun, I loved them. I got to change the colors and stuff and I had the rubber bands. -- Jordin Sparks
Our family room, where we live, is about togetherness and ease. Nothing in my house is too formal. There are no coasters on tables; the kids can eat Popsicles on the couch if they want to. I let them ride these little cycles we got for them when they were 3 that have rubber wheels and no pedals. -- Cindy Crawford
We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home. -- Bobby Doerr
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
Every studio needs a rubber chicken. -- Joe Jonas
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck? -- J. K. Rowling
A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow. -- Charles Krauthammer
I never have no trouble with my rubber girl. -- Frank Zappa
Only Dunlop has seen more rubber than I have -- Dominik Hasek
We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree -- Mechai Viravaidya
He just hit himself in the dinger with a rubber. -- CM Punk
I've been coming back like a rubber ball for years. -- Mickey Rooney
Everyone knows an ant, can't, move a rubber tree plant. -- Nick Swisher
Hey you! Don't be silly! Put a rubber on your willie! -- Madonna Ciccone
When I make love I use protection. I wear rubber gloves. -- Jarod Kintz
Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate. -- Patricia Ireland
A condom is a rubber thing shaped like a wiener that hums. -- Bill Engvall
Inside, I was like: "Ha, suck my spiky rubber strap-on, vampyre hunter! -- Christopher Moore
Sandals are made out of rubber, and when lit on fire burn black. -- Joe Teti
Our educational system now teaches every kid the same thing. It's like rubber stamping! -- Nick Nolte
I'm rubber, you're glue, whatever you say bounce off me and sticks to you. -- Wise saying
After you eat a Hot Pocket, Everything will taste like rubber for a month! -- Jim Gaffigan
When I was young, I could bounce back from things like a brand-new rubber ball. -- Kobo Abe
He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup. -- Wilson Mizner
Cause POP POP POP it goes my rubber band. So STOP STOP STOP sniffin that contraband. -- Nicki Minaj
If you want to leave a big mark in life, make sure you've got a bigger rubber -- Benny Bellamacina
Take off your rubber and there's one more inside her, it's not yours, who can it be? -- Slick Rick
A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another. -- Jimmy Cannon
What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys? -- Douglas Coupland
I'm rubber and you're glue," I told Satan, " and everything that bounces of me sticks to you. -- MaryJanice Davidson
I do not intend to allow the Senate to rubber-stamp the president's plan to reward the Chinese Communists. -- Jesse Helms
On 'Ant-Man', I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who's played by Michael Douglas. -- Evangeline Lilly
The human heart is like india-rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it. -- Anne Bronte
I'm just a Westside lover, I leave females in my sheets and all my feelings in a rubber. -- Big Sean
Every time I toe the rubber, it's no different for me than it was in the World Series. -- Roger Clemens
You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead. -- Michael Palin
I want my relationship with my girlfriend to be built on trust, not toothpicks, rubber bands, and lentil beans. -- Jarod Kintz
The squiggly rubber Davy Jones face in 'Pirates' with the tentacles, barnacles and goobers - that's modeled on me. -- Stephen Hunter
I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips -- Clement Freud
Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe. -- Elbert Hubbard
Love is like a rubber band, Both pull on, one release And it hurts the person who has held it. -- Lil Wayne
The adorably rubber-faced Ken James Stewart is jumping ship from the Shaw Festival after five years to play Charlie Brown -- Richard Ouzounian
Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention. -- Sam Kinison
I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger. -- Jamie Chung
It is no coincidence that some of America's most lethargic industries-steel, footwear, rubber, textiles-are also among the most heavily protected. -- Thomas DiLorenzo
When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside. -- Stephen King
I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president. -- Daniel Inouye
Right at the end of the big wall of vibrators, $29.95, big rubber fist. Thirty bucks! Just in time for mothers day. -- Doug Stanhope
Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe. -- Hunter S. Thompson
If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes. -- Bernhard Langer
Other people, you know, put a latex rubber on, you know, to become sexually excited. There's so much I don't understand. -- John Cleese
The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive. -- Philip Yancey
When I was a kid, I slept on rubber sheets, but now, I'm a man. And I can take the wetness! -- Emo Philips
Like a weighted diver sinking in an oceanof mediocrity, under the pressure of men withgelatin eyes, rubber voices, spiral-shapedconvictions, non-committal souls and non-committinghands ... -- Ayn Rand
The Arab monarchies, especially Jordan and Morocco, are more legitimate than the false republics, with their stolen elections, regime-dominated courts and rubber-stamp parliaments. -- Elliott Abrams
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Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering. -- Margaret Atwood
We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel. -- Peter De Vries
When you have terrorists, you don't throw at them balloons or you don't use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments. -- Bashar al-Assad
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
The condom has saved so many lives and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree. -- Mechai Viravaidya
Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs. -- Sarah Schulman
They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons and themselves. -- Marilyn Johnson
I've always loved plastics and rubber, and it's such a specifically unique material that you have to have the manufacturing abilities to make it. -- Jeremy Scott
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
My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." â?? Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories) -- Aimee Bender
We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death. -- Desmond Tutu
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
I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way. -- Henry David Thoreau
When I was younger, my mum used to put fresh flowers in bath water instead of rubber ducks, and since then I had a love of perfumes. -- Virginia Hey
I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time. -- Rick Baker
Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age. -- Malcolm Cowley
..when the first rubber ball smacked her in the head and made her brains rattle in her skull, she knew that something about this dodgeball game was different -- Michael Buckley
Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the "rubber stamp meets the road"; unless teams can learn, the organization cannot learn. -- Peter Senge
Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful. -- M. F. K. Fisher
A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball -- Christy Mathewson

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