Rube Goldberg quotes

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression. (Rube Goldberg)
It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.
Rube Goldberg
And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with.
Rube Goldberg
I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.
Rube Goldberg
And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.
Rube Goldberg
I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.
Rube Goldberg
Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I'm a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch - terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.
Rube Goldberg
Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either.
Rube Goldberg
I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.
Rube Goldberg
When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.
Rube Goldberg
And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine. (Rube Goldberg)
Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.
Rube Goldberg
And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.
Rube Goldberg
Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.
Rube Goldberg