Top 100 Quotes About Rubs
#2. He swallows a soothing mouthful of Jim Beam and rubs at his face, trying to rub away the familiar regret, that he can't take back words that are already history, that have found their mark and already done their damage.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#3. As soon as my fingers graze her skin, chills rush down her arms. She tightens her arms over her chest and rubs the chills away. I can't help but grin, knowing it was my hand on her skin that did that to her. Best. Feeling. Ever.
Colleen Hoover
#4. I am fairly tired
bored beyond endurance
by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.
Henry Adams
#5. It rubs me the wrong way, a camera ... It's a frightening thing ... Cameras make ghosts out of people.
Bob Dylan
#6. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
Jane Austen
#7. As for your back rubs ... Study an anatomy book, pal, because what you've been rubbing isn't my back.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#8. Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.
John Bolton
#9. He keeps his arms away from me, but eventually, holding him, I feel him tuck his chin over my head. Then he whispers, "You're the sweetest girl, the best girl, I ever kissed, Carrie West," and rubs his face into my hair like a child, breathing deep.
Mary Ann Rivers
#10. It would take a good amount of work, a considerable amount of patience, and an unfathomable amount of foot rubs, but in the end - at least for a while - they lived happily.
Daniel Younger
#11. 'Indiana Jones' wasn't physically tough, but they are the only two films I've ever been ill on. On 'The Last Crusade,' I got sciatica. That's when the sciatic nerve, which goes through the funny hole in your pelvis down your leg, swells and rubs against the nerves.
John Rhys-Davies
#12. Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.
Chuck Palahniuk
#13. You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.
Gordon Lightfoot
#14. There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
Ioan Gruffudd
#15. I've been really surprised about a lot of the negative comments about artisanal pencil sharpening. Like, it really rubs some people the wrong way.
David Rees
#16. Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination makes it almost unavoidable.
Rachel Hartman
#17. As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
Tom Peters
#18. One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.
Donald Rumsfeld
#19. If the requirements of world-structure are so inexorable, what scope is there for a free providence in distributing pleasures and pains? If pains are the natural rubs of a world-structure bearing on sentient creatures, what need have we to view them as instruments of a disciplinary providence?
Jocelyn Gibb
#20. No one believes he is an idiot until the consequences of his actions prove it. Then hindsight rubs it in.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#21. He rubs his forehead, frustrated, then raises his eyes, one dark brown, one gray-blue - the
Eleanor Herman
#22. If I hadn't already flown with him, I'd be scared. I'm above the water with nothing but his arms between me and an icy plunge. But his arms are wrapped tightly around me and his chest is warm. I lean my head against his muscular shoulder and close my eyes.
He rubs his cheek against my hair
Susan Ee
#23. I just don't like the word 'fun'
it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts ... it rubs me up the wrong way.
Tom Waits
#24. Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.
Hugh Jackman
#25. No, I need to feed her." She rubs her breasts and winces a little. "They hurt because I didn't give her enough time when we were on the road. I need to nurse or they'll start leaking." Holy fucking shit. I just got insta-hard. "Leaking?
J.A. Huss
#26. Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.
Corra May Harris
#27. He rubs his hand through his thick, dark hair and I am riveted by the cords of rippling muscles that intertwine and gallop down his arms.
Jennifer Martucci
#28. During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've ever known, and nothing is lost. That's what is eternal, these little specks of experience in a great, enormous river that has no end.
Harriet Doerr
#29. That's when he finally turns his head to look at me. As he rubs himself, he swallows, and I see his Adam's apple bob roughly. "I need to know.
Sarina Bowen
#30. A TV can insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a computer.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#31. When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.
Geoffrey Wood
#32. If you look at the size of the art world in terms of the money that is being transacted compared to other parts of the 'consciousness industry,' it is minuscule. But if you look at what happens in this small sector, how it rubs off on the rest of it, it is astonishing.
Hans Haacke
#33. Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.
Ray Bradbury
#34. I told them that I'd need a larger casket."
I don't want to know. "Why?"
"Because I plan on spending the majority of my afterlife turning over in my grave while Elizabeth Adler rubs the fact that she already has three grandkids and a handsome son-in-law in my face.
Adrianne Brooks
#35. I hope the business sense that artists like Jay-Z and Nelly are showing rubs off on the young players. I want somebody to stand up and say, Look, these kids got it going on. We want to be a part of them.
Antonio Davis
#36. By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#37. Let me tell you something. I'm a funny girl, and I gave birth to what? Funny. I can't help it. It just is what it is, and my kids have been around my antics so long, it kind of rubs off a little bit. So when it comes to what you see, you only see what is really manifesting in our lives at the time.
Niecy Nash
#38. Rain was falling, quiet rain, penetrating, like thick fog. You know, the terrible rain that rubs out the hours, that lies outside of time, in the eternity of sadness that no longer dares to name itself, autumn rain that erases even the memory of a possible return of summer. It was raining like that.
Marie Bronsard
#39. Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
Anna Funder
#40. If you want to kill giants, hang around a giant killer. It rubs off.
Bill Johnson
#41. I think Liverpool generates generosity which rubs off - it's a good place to work and to party.
Rhys Ifans
#42. He just rubs people up the wrong way in a short space of time and, after he'd gone, one of the South African coaches there said to me in a thick Bok accent 'You see, Richard, what we have to put up with?'
Richard Loe
#43. You can't drown when you know how to float."
Chris says nothing for a few minutes. "Maybe. But the water is pretty calm today. There could always be a storm." He rubs my shoulders. He breathes against me. He waits. "It's hard to float in a storm.
Jessica Park
#44. Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.
Charles Derber
#45. Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)
Elizabeth Bishop
#46. Pissed-off people need back rubs and they also need gym memberships.
Augusten Burroughs
#47. The river moves, but it follows a path. When it tires of one journey, it rubs through some rock to forge a new way. Hard work, but that's its nature.
Kekla Magoon
#48. What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?
P. J. O'Rourke
#49. The world is small, baby. But love is large. Big enough that coincidence occasionally rubs elbows with opportunity.
Max Monroe
#50. Then Octavia drops to her knees, rubs the hem of a skirt against her cheek, and burst into tears. "It's been so long," she gasps, "since I've seen anything pretty.
Suzanne Collins
#51. This world rubs me raw, scours me smooth like an SOS pad put to a grease-caked skillet. And pain: it stabs and scrapes and pulls me back to earth, my final B&B, that worm-spun cot of cool black sod.
Chila Woychik
#52. We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.
Oliver Goldsmith
#53. I've always balked at anything that feels like a clique, even if it's not always in my best interest to do so. I like each individual, fedora-wearing hipster - it's just the greater gestalt that rubs me the wrong way.
Michael Showalter
#54. Spider rubs his eyes in a way that makes it clear that the weight of both life's experience and the immutability of youth's colossal dumbassedness is presently crushing his very soul.
Wise Young Fool
Sean Beaudoin
#55. That it does." I smile warmly. He rubs his nose against mine, Eskimo-style. "I just thought it would
Samantha Towle
#56. If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don't mind living in that state, but I don't want to be there anymore. I don't want to live in a state of depression.
Alan Arkin
#57. Gray texted me a joke the other day. Want to hear it?"
"Knowing Gray's terrible jokes, probably not. But okay."
He rubs the back of his neck. "What do you call a cow with no legs?"
I caress his waist where muscles ripple. "What?"
"Ground beef.
Kristen Callihan
#58. The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things, not great things that can be written up, but the common little rubs of life, silly little nothings, things you are ashamed of minding one scrap
Amy Carmichael
#59. We do not ask for wealth because he that has health and children will also have wealth. We do not pray to have money but to have more kinsmen. We are better than animals because we have kinsmen. An animal rubs its itching flank against a tree, a man asks his kinsman to scratch him.
Chinua Achebe
#60. I should have known you'd have no taste," Olivia says and rubs her temples. "Tacky from the tips of her toes, to her hair colored with what I can only assume is actual bleach." She turns and points to John. "Hey, you would know. Does the carpet match the drapes?
Katelin LaMontagne
#61. Tell me, Alice." He rubs something off his trousers. "On a scale from one to insanity, how insane are you?
Cameron Jace
#62. Magic is like bad grammar; hang around it long enough, and it rubs off on you.
Brandon Sanderson
#63. The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of work they have to do. There is frequent turnover of staff. Morale is extremely low. Working with desperate people all day is very dispiriting; their unhappiness rubs off on you.
Sue Townsend
#64. Something rubs off from everything you read, observe, and tinker with.
R. F. Delderfield
#65. His skin is warm and sandy.We intertwine our fingers and close our eyes against the sun.
We just lie there.Holding hands.He rubs my palm with his thumb like he did two summers ago beneath the stars.
And I melt.
E. Lockhart
#66. Oi didn't loike that bloke, Captain. Bastard, 'e were, but Oi s'pose rules is for them yer don't loike. Yer won't 'urt them as yer do. In't that what God's about, been fair to them as rubs your coat all the wrong way?
Anne Perry
#67. I did go to school - my kind of school. When I was a kid I went out ... and you meet people. You talk to them. Anybody says something that makes sense, it stays with you, rubs off on you. That kind of school.
George Burns
#68. When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.
Marshall McLuhan
#70. We walked on the moon. We made footprints somewhere no one else had ever made footprints, and unless someone comes and rubs them out, those footprints will be there forever because there's no wind.
Frank Cottrell Boyce
#71. watching trails of mist swirl about your legs, which reminds you of a neighbor's gray kitten that arches its back, puffs up, and rubs against your ankles.
Shane Jiraiya Cummings
#72. When you hang out with people who are always being supergrateful and appreciating things and saying thank you, in the end it kind of rubs off, and one day after I'd flushed, I turned to the toilet and said, "Thanks, toilet," and it felt pretty natural.
Ruth Ozeki
#73. Valium rubs out speech marks and pops thought-bubbles.
David Mitchell
#74. An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
William Bernbach
#75. How are you feeling?"
She rubs the back of her neck. "Stupid question."
"Well, ask me and I'll tell you I'm fucking great.
Courtney Summers
#76. When your horse follows you without being asked, when he rubs his head on yours, and when you look at him and feel a tingle down your spine...you know you are loved.
John Lyons
#77. You don't say words like 'gig', lady."
"My man's a biker. Shit rubs off.
Kristen Ashley
#78. A little bit of everything you admire eventually rubs off on you.
Alan Dean Foster
#79. And just as I start to move past him, my hip accidentally rubs against his, and his face is so close, and his eyes so deep, that I can't help but lift my fingers to his smooth, sculptured cheek. Then without even thinking, I close my eyes, lean in, and kiss him.
Alyson Noel
#80. Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection, and in this fashion learns to know oneself, the world, good and evil, the heights and the depths.
Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig
#81. Holly rubs her temples. "Are we talking ... vampires?"
Arkady groans. "On, the V-word! Here it comes again.
David Mitchell
#83. Time. It rubs the rough edges that hurt us smooth.
Nina George
#84. The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn.
Mason Cooley
#86. Have you ever heard of rubbing dandelions under your chin? If it rubs off that means you're in love.
Ray Bradbury
#87. What is it that you think is going to get me?" My arm rubs against his when I shift to look at him. "The list is endless." "Since when did you become so protective?" "Since my enemies have determined that you're my Daughter of Man.
Susan Ee
#88. Every night before bed, I rub my wife's feet. She says they're the best foot rubs on Earth.
Luke Bryan
#89. There's not someone who tells you how adorable you are and rubs your head and goes into a crowded press conference and stands at the back and winks at you so that you think, 'I can get through this.'
Cher
#90. What rubs off on me is hard to rub off. So, I'd better figure out what I rubbing up against.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#91. Will's on the bed on his hands and knees. Patrick pounds into him as he rubs up and down his back over and over. A strange, possessive thought fills him: he's mine now and I have to take good care of him. Patrick
Leta Blake
#92. I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good.
Michael Hutchence
#93. Sadness is like sandpaper; it rubs at our sharper edges, softening and humbling us, making us ready for a coat of compassion.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#94. I could stay here, I thought, make money at the track while she nurses me over the bad moments, rubs oils on my body, cooks for me, talks to me, goes to bed with me.
Charles Bukowski
#95. She rubs my back and sighs.
Jesus Abby, I'm so sorry. If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're still hung up on him. Big time.
Annie Brewer
#96. As the character changes in the movie, it rubs off on the viewer, so the viewer also goes through that change.
Eckhart Tolle
#97. If my legs are showing, the makeup artist adds a tiny amount of foundation to body lotion and rubs it in.
Christina Hendricks
#98. He rubs his nose over mine. 'Sleep well?'
He wants a chat now? Sparks are flying off all over the place down below and he wants to chat? 'Very.' I roll my h*ps suggestively.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#99. The authenticity aspect is pretty important to me. When we have to compromise and do something that's not authentic, it really rubs me, every time I have to see it in the edit, which is millions of times.
Cary Fukunaga
#100. But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
George Gordon Byron
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