Rub Off Sayings

#1. First, perseverance trumps talent. Second, do what you want to do, otherwise why bother? Third, be ethical; it might rub off on others. Fourth, don't give up.

Jay Maisel

#2. I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the city's mystery and magnificence might rub off on me at last. But I gave it up.

Sylvia Plath

#3. It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten with a fork. Ladies should be particularly careful how they manage so ticklish a dainty, lest the exhibition rub off a little desirable romance.

Charlie Day

#4. He was funny and focused and fierce. I mean the guy could be fierce. And there wasn't anything mean about him. I didn't understand how you could live in a mean world and not have any of that meanness rub off on you.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#5. If evil lingers around you, it will rub off on you, it will cause stress, anxiety and a lot of mental anguish! 'Eyes' - you can see evil in the eye of the beholder! Body! Talk! Stance! Walk! Posture! Evil oozes out!

Stephen Richards

#6. In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

Bryant H. McGill

#7. I wasn't the smartest kid in town but I've always thought if you hang around with smart people some of it's bound to rub off.

Victor J. Banis

#8. What rubs off on me is hard to rub off. So, I'd better figure out what I rubbing up against.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. Jay: Looks like you misspelled the Treaty of Versailles.
Sara: Yeah, well. My brother's natural ability for languages didn't rub off on me.
Jay: ... I'm not talking about Versailles. I have no idea if you spelled that right. I'm talking about the word 'treaty.

Tracy Bilen

#10. Be aware of the company you keep. You'd be surprised how easily they rub off on you. You don't want to attract the wrong influence.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#11. All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

Sebastian Coe

#12. Travel should rub off Local Prejudices and provide an enlarged and impartial view of Men and Things.

Josiah Tucker

#13. I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.

Janet Suzman

#14. Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age-and all of our fears that it carries-will "rub off" on us, the way that racists once believed blackness would.

Perry Brass

#15. I didn't understand how you could live in a mean world and not have any of that meanness rub off on you. How could a guy live without meanness?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#16. A prudent man will always try to follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been truly outstanding, so that, if he is not quite as skillful as they, at least some of their ability may rub off on him.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#17. All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#18. You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another.

James Levine

#19. I wish I was Sienna Miller. When I talk to her, I hope a bit of her party personality will rub off on me, but it never does.

Keira Knightley

#20. You'll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#21. Be careful with whom you associate. Loser's rub off!

Donald Trump

#22. Before you go,mate,turn on the telly. Something raunchy too. Think I'll rub off one before I go to sleep

Jeaniene Frost

#23. There has been an unwise and spectacularly unsuccessful attempt to grow a goatee, hence a fluffy little tuft of something or other, just underneath the centre of his lower lip, that any mother would want to rub off with a bit of spit.

Nick Hornby

#24. As I got older, I became so self conscious about my birthmark that I was very hesitant about going to a pool party, because I didn't want my makeup to rub off.

Hannah Storm

#25. As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in the halls, pull strands of hair off our clothing. Whenever we leave our bed, our room
not often
two or three are sure to be lurking just outside our door.

Kelly Link

#26. To say "I" is to draw a circle in which writer and reader share a common existence within the margins of the page, where reality and unreality rub off each other, where words and what the words name contaminate each other.

Alberto Manguel

#27. It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance.

Hafez

#28. Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

Damon Runyon

#29. Keep a positive attitude and it will rub off on everyone you know

Jennifer Senhaji

#30. Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.

Francois Fenelon

#31. 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

#32. Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.

Robin S. Sharma

#33. She looked a bit like a different person. It was weird. Just a few weeks away from home could rub the familiarity right off of someone.

Jojo Moyes

#34. I rub a mixture of honey and salt all over my body to moisturise and exfoliate. You wash it off and your skin is gorgeous.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#35. my room, and to rub his scent off me.

Amy Tan

#36. Or maybe when they do the operation- when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everybody else- maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore. -Shay, Uglies

Scott Westerfeld

#37. 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

#38. Did you not take the opportunity to bathe, gentlemen? Valentina questioned them, trying to take her mind off her body, which felt unusually sensitive in this sultry climate. The silk of her gown seemed to rub against her nipples with every breath.

Bertrice Small

#39. Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity. If you wanted to run the blender, you had to rub balloons on your head. If you wanted to cook, you had to pull off a sweater real quick

Steven Wright

#40. Laura, they rub your face off using DIAMONDS.

Jenny Lawson

#41. Sand is one of the best exfoliates out there! Take a handful of sand and rub it on your skin in small circles. When you're done, wash it off and presto ... you get spa like skin, without the price tag.

Jenna Morasca

#42. The Pastor had spent his boyhood in the old country and was not at all sure that hot water, stall showers and the like were necessary to salvation. In fact it was one of his notions that Americans were too clean. Rub all the natural protective oils off their skins, they do for a fact.

Budd Schulberg

#43. Change is like the skin peeling off of a snake. It is slow. It is sticky. And sometimes you have to rub against a hard place to pull yourself through it. But in the end, you realize that it was worth it all to get the the new place and new person you have become.

Stella Payton

#44. Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us.

Joel Osteen

#45. You rub his arm any longer, you're going to wear the skin right off. Go find yourself another cowboy to pet. I need to talk to this one.

Nicole Williams

#46. Just a few weeks away from home could rub the familiarity right off someone.

Jojo Moyes

#47. He stopped, finally, and smiled. Honestly? With this thing I think I could get my jerk-off muscles so well-developed that I could rub out a spooge with one pump! If that's not worth $19.95, I don't know what is.

Debra Anastasia

#48. A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country. You can put city polish on a man, but by golly, it seems you can't ever rub it off him.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#49. She wears a Val Surf T-shirt and boys' boxer shorts and she has a boy's phone number scrawled on her hand. Part of her wants to spit on it and rub it off, and part of her wishes it was written in huge numbers across her belly, his name in gang letters, like a tattoo.

Francesca Lia Block

#50. I close my eyes, rub my thumb against the bridge of my nose to ward off the headache. Well, Rome wasn't built in a day.

Jodi Picoult

#51. Oh, no you fucking don't. You do not ignore me for five weeks, rub your toe in the dirt and say you need something from me, then bail when I bleed off some hurt.

Heidi Cullinan