Rub Quotes

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth. (Rebecca West)
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. View quote
Roland Barthes
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. View quote
Beatrix Potter
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water. View quote
Amy Tan
When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. View quote
Bob Hope
If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of. View quote
Ryan Gosling
Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death. View quote
Donald Cargill
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off. View quote
Vinoba Bhave
I wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit and force it to look in the mirror. View quote
J. G. Ballard
Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work. (Beatrix Potter)
All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away. View quote
Kenan Evren
Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles II into St. James's Park, he kissed the King's hand, and rubbed his nose with it; which disturbed the King, but cured him. View quote
John Aubrey
See, I'm looking for a man that'll rub me slow, make me sing real high when he goes down low. View quote
Mariah Carey
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? View quote
Rumi
You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong. View quote
Peter Greenaway
Always try to rub against money, for if you rub against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you. (A Very Honorable Guy) View quote
Damon Runyon
Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in. View quote
Aldous Huxley
She rubbed her eyes, and after a long study of his face, she spoke "Is it really you?" Is it from your cheek, she thought, that I took the seed? The man nodded. His heart wobbled and he held tighter to the branches. It is. View quote
Markus Zusak
They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together. View quote
Shannon Hale
I will admit, I once launched myself at Julie Garwood for a hug, hoping some of her magic would rub off on me... and I have fangirl crushes on Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Linda Howard, and Kresley Cole, among many others. (Lisa Kleypas)
When I was a kid, I had this idea that I would have a beard when I got older. I thought it'd be nice to rub my chin. View quote
Rosario Dawson
I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording. View quote
Bootsy Collins
In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it! View quote
Bryant H. McGill
I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces. View quote
Bubba Sparxxx
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