Quotes About Rube Goldberg

#1. It was a Rube Goldberg disease. A change in the sequence of a gene caused the change in the sequence of a protein; that warped its shape; that shrank a cell; that clogged a vein; that jammed the flow; that racked the body (that genes built).

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#2. Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.

Russell Baker

#3. You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely complicated machine designed to carry out the extremely simple task of constructing your soul.

Kevin Brockmeier

#4. If when you hear a song by OK Go you conjure up thoughts of a gigantic Rube Goldberg device or treadmills or drones or perfectly executed dance routines, then you know that this is a band that is masterful at coming up with amazingly creative music videos.

Rachel Martin

#5. Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation through Congress required so many political tradeoffs and so many unavoidable deals with so many vested interests. But that's no excuse.

Tina Brown

#6. The Statist has constructed a Rube Goldberg array of laws and policies that have institutionalized his objectives. His success breeds confidence in the limitlessness of his endeavors.

Mark Levin

#7. america...is the interplay of three hundred million rube goldberg contraptions invented only yesterday

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#8. A Rube Goldberg machine is, in its essence, a trial-and-error thing.

Adam Sadowsky

#9. Be your own dentist!

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#10. When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

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#11. 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

#12. The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things.

Mario J. Molina

#13. History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

Mark Twain

#14. And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

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#15. And I, uh, 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.

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#16. Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

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#17. The first thing a principle does is to kill somebody.
Gaudy Night

Dorothy L. Sayers

#18. I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

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#19. 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.

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#20. screwed her courage to the sticking place

Lynsay Sands

#21. No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.

Tucker Max

#22. And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

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#23. Professor Butts walks in his sleep, strolls through a cactus field in his bare feet, and screams out an idea for a self-operating napkin.

Rube Goldberg

#24. Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.

Arthur Eddington

#25. I thought only a wooden stake through the heart killed a vampire." "A wooden stake through the heart will kill just about anything. And if it doesn't, run like hell,

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#26. I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

Imelda Marcos

#27. 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.

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#28. Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either.

Rube Goldberg

#29. 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.

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#30. It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

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#31. We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#32. And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with.

Rube Goldberg