Quotes About Rube

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

Adam Sadowsky

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

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#4. I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube.'
And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me.
He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it.

Markus Zusak

#5. 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

#6. When (Rube) Waddell
had control and some sleep, he was unbeatable.

Branch Rickey

#7. 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

#8. One good punch from Rube on me would send the sky into my head and the clouds into my lungs. I just always tried to stay up.

Markus Zusak

#9. How'd it feel?" Rube asked himself. "I don't know exactly, but it made me want to howl.

Markus Zusak

#10. Rube, this is me you're talking to, Clancy Crew, remember? Your best buddy? And I hate to break it to you this way but your grandmother on your mother's side, she isn't sick - she's dead!

Lauren Child

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. We used to languish when we walked, or sidle down the street like dogs that have just done something wrong. Now Rube walks upright, because he's on the attack.

Markus Zusak

#14. Big Rube was on my first album and some of my mixtapes. His words are so powerful. I want to speak every word he says into existence. I wanna be a part of that! I wanna be a part of greatness. His wordplay is great to me.

Nayvadius Cash

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

Russell Baker

#16. This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.

Chuck Palahniuk

#17. He was a rube, but he was no tourist.

Colson Whitehead

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

Rube Goldberg

#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.

Rube Goldberg

#20. 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

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

Rube Goldberg

#22. 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.

Rube Goldberg

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

Rube Goldberg

#24. Thieves always count their change!

Jason P. Goodman

#25. 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

#26. Be your own dentist!

Rube Goldberg

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

Rube Goldberg

#28. 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

#29. Do not worry. Try to appear jolly and unconcerned. I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three balls on the batter. This seems to unnerve.

Rube Foster

#30. 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

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

Rube Goldberg

#32. 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

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

Rube Goldberg

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

Rube Goldberg