Rubber Quotes

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)
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! View quote
Bryan Lee O'Malley
I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able. View quote
Maxfield Parrish
The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such as mining, smelting, oil- refining, textiles, rubber, building, and even agriculture in respect to fertilizers and food processing. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands. View quote
Ryszard Kapuściński
You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead. View quote
Michael Palin
Vast quantities of U. S. bombers, tanks and guns have been sent against Ho Chi Minh and his freedom-fighters; and now we are told that soon it will be 'advisable' to send America GI's into Indo-China in order that the tin, rubber and tungsten of Southeast Asia be kept by the "free world"-meaning white Imperialism. View quote
Paul Robeson
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. View quote
John Dos Passos
For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break. View quote
Sarah Dessen
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. View quote
Alan Turing
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)
Percy!” he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If you've never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and rubber cleaning gloves, I'm telling you, it'll wake you up quick. View quote
Rick Riordan
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. View quote
Cindy Crawford
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. View quote
Gary Keller
I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul. View quote
Benmont Tench
If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes. View quote
Bernhard Langer
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. View quote
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come. View quote
Edward Zwick
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. View quote
Garrett Hedlund
I think - I think I've always been kind of - I used to think of myself as a piece of rubber when I was a kid because I was kind of very shy and very - very emotional about things, but I kind of would bounce back. View quote
Lynn Redgrave
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)
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. View quote
Paavo Nurmi
Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate. View quote
Patricia Ireland
Every time I toe the rubber, it's no different for me than it was in the World Series. View quote
Roger Clemens
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!" View quote
George Will