Top 100 Rubbed Quotes

#1. Sachin is the greatest player I have seen. I consider it an honour to have rubbed shoulders with him

Brian Lara

Rubbed Quotes #2871
#2. He held her face in his hands and his gaze warmed her sadness. "I don't care how you got here. I'm just happy you were born." He rubbed noses with hers. "Real happy.

Selena Robins

Rubbed Quotes #4538
#3. 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.

Amy Tan

Rubbed Quotes #4588
#4. Roan rubbed his eyes, restraining the urge to ask if "light domination" meant he liked having his dates order for him in restaurants.

Andrea Speed

Rubbed Quotes #21866
#5. Meanwhile we arrived at our lane and the sight of the olive tree rubbed me the wrong way. I began to see that no spot is less habitable than a place where one has been happy.

Cesare Pavese

Rubbed Quotes #38478
#6. It was love, after all,
that rubbed the skins from their gray cheeks,
crippled their fingers,
snarled their hair, brown or dull gold.
Hate would merely have smashed them.

Margaret Atwood

Rubbed Quotes #40592
#7. He rubbed at his face, as if seeking to awaken the right words from muscle, blood and bone.

Steven Erikson

Rubbed Quotes #51144
#8. it was like glass sandpaper being rubbed on my skin.

Nicci French

Rubbed Quotes #66242
#9. We have a name," said Jace. "Magnes B-"
"Shut up." Alec hissed, thwacking Jace with his closed menu. Jace looked injured.
"Jesus," he rubbed his arm. "What's your problem?

Cassandra Clare

Rubbed Quotes #67061
#10. Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated ... , and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character, Selina said.

Edna Ferber

Rubbed Quotes #77520
#11. At the time, I remained relatively calm before that spectacle of horrors, which is perhaps the most telling indication of just how desensitized I had become. The more I witnessed such atrocities and rubbed shoulders with death, the more I desired to stay alive, no matter the cost.

Kang Chol-Hwan

Rubbed Quotes #86334
#12. The elevator jolted and came to a halt. Caught off balance, Hannah stumbled into him. Lincoln caught her, and her cheeks filled with color. "Hmm." Mr. Welch rubbed his beard. "Looks like she's warming up to you already, Mr. Cole.

Lorna Seilstad

Rubbed Quotes #88382
#13. Jesus." Blake rubbed his throat. "You have anger management problems. Its like a disease."
"There's a cure and it's called kicking your ass.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Rubbed Quotes #89387
#14. Lorcan rubbed his head. "Am I asking too much to want the little bitch dead? Am I?" It seemed Hefaidd-Hen learned long ago not to answer certain questions. "All I want is for her to suffer a painful, horrifying death. And for her head to be on a spike in front of my castle. That's all I want.

G.A. Aiken

Rubbed Quotes #104923
#15. She cast Oliver a hard glance. "If one of us is arrested, we've all committed to being taken to the station." "Free." He rubbed his eyes. "Anna Marie Higgins - she's the lady over there in the sailor hat - she's been taken to the station thirteen times already.

Courtney Milan

Rubbed Quotes #108228
#16. I rubbed my face with my hands, trying to clear away the image of Clancy Gray trapped down in the dark. That's where he belongs, came the savage voice in my mind.

Alexandra Bracken

Rubbed Quotes #118429
#17. Paris rubbed his forehead against his, running his hands through Roan's hair, and said, 'How about we come back here
and exchange notes once we're done with the interviews? Take a long lunch.'

'Only exchange notes?'

'No one said we can't exchange notes in bed.

Andrea Speed

Rubbed Quotes #127574
#18. Yawning, Aden rubbed his eyes, blinked three more times, and yawned again. "Without breakfast? I never run away on an empty stomach.

Jack Lewis Baillot

Rubbed Quotes #130890
#19. I rubbed my head trying to fend off the headache I was sure this conversation would bring me.

Hilary Grossman

Rubbed Quotes #131363
#20. That's great. You have family." Livia rubbed Blake's arm.
"You're my family," Blake said coldly.

Debra Anastasia

Rubbed Quotes #149569
#21. Pushing herself up to a sitting position, she rubbed the side of her face and then blinked at what seemed to be a solid Avail of business suits. She looked up. 'Mount Rushmore,' she said. 'Little far west of home for this time of year?' The

Pat Cadigan

Rubbed Quotes #155403
#22. Gran swatted his butt and shooed him away out the door. "Now, we can get down to business." She rubbed her hands together like a villain.

Shelly Crane

Rubbed Quotes #160697
#23. When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

Bob Hope

Rubbed Quotes #162082
#24. Down on my knees again. Worship isn't enough."
Peter leaned forward and rubbed his forehead against Charlie's. "I'm going to like this," he murmured. "Daily services. Hourly services.

Gordon Merrick

Rubbed Quotes #166878
#25. Oh, Eva." He rubbed his cheek against my damp face. "I must've wished for you so hard and so often you had no choice but to come true.

Sylvia Day

Rubbed Quotes #168591
#26. The Mushrooms. He rubbed himself with them and then whamo! Grumpy glows. He wouldn't come anywhere near this place without his mushroom rubdown, and let me tell you, that was disturbing to watch. The sounds he made, his face..." Leo shuddered. "He really needs to do that in private.

Shea Berkley

Rubbed Quotes #176169
#27. Constantine grabbed his elbow and never had I seen such physical relief cross his features before. Olivia rubbed her chest, and looked like she might cry.

Anne Zoelle

Rubbed Quotes #188390
#28. Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by time. The Black Hills are more rugged at their southern extremity, where bare granite forms pinnacles and spires.

Clive Sinclair

Rubbed Quotes #196736
#29. Buddha advised: Bhikshus and wise ones, As gold is burnt, cut, and rubbed Take my advice by examining my speech well - Not [merely] for the sake of respect.

Yangsi

Rubbed Quotes #199499
#30. Arabella dangled her legs out of the bedroom window and closed her eyes. She felt a butterfly brush against her knee, rubbed her skin against the mortar and bricks, drank in the warmth of the morning sunshine on her face, her arms, her feet.

Pauline Fisk

Rubbed Quotes #226663
#31. Zane dragged his hands down Ty's body to grasp his ass. Ty responded, his muscles bunching, his cock stirring against Zane's groin, kicking up a wicked feedback loop between the two of them as they rubbed against each other and grew more and more aroused. Ty

Abigail Roux

Rubbed Quotes #227305
#32. What a waste." The woman sighed and moved away. Looking at Victoria, she rubbed her thumb and forefinger together absently. "Burn him. Slowly. From the inside out.

Heather McVea

Rubbed Quotes #228005
#33. We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!"
Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts."
"Big doubts?" I said weakly.
The Russian scientist shrugged. "I am pessimist," he said.

Kenneth Oppel

Rubbed Quotes #228061
#34. Mm!" Joey rubbed his stomach. "I love me some root juice in the morning. Enlivens the senses!

Jessica Khoury

Rubbed Quotes #234821
#35. Drat. I'm not sure anyone even noticed the kiss."
"I noticed it." He rubbed his mouth with the side of his hand. The taste of ripe plums still lingered on his lips. He found himself unaccountably thirsty.

Tessa Dare

Rubbed Quotes #235408
#36. Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill
of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.

Donald Hall

Rubbed Quotes #242425
#37. My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind

Tana French

Rubbed Quotes #257804
#38. I gave a pointed glance down at the pink stains on the bed, evidence of his climax due to the blood-to-water ratio in vampire bodies "So you made those... by yourself?" And rubbed some on me for good measure? I mentally added, but didn't say out loud.

Jeaniene Frost

Rubbed Quotes #262072
#39. They held me and told me everything would be fine, that sadness would rise from our bones and evaporate in sunlight the way morning fog burned off the river in summer. My mother rubbed the kites on my hands and arms and told me to think of my lungs as balloons. I just want to feel safe, I said.

Shane Jones

Rubbed Quotes #262936
#40. I didn't fit.
I was a different size, a different shape. I kept trying to squeeze into a body, a skin suit, that was too small. It rubbed me the wrong way. I blistered. I callused. I scarred over and it kept hurting. I would never fit.
But, really, I didn't want to fit. That's why it was hard.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Rubbed Quotes #277292
#41. On one side of his brain, logic was standing on a chair, waving its arms to get his attention. On the other side, lust and yearning rubbed their hands together in unholy anticipation.

Joanna Shupe

Rubbed Quotes #287284
#42. The music teacher thought I sang like a goat. It was kind of devastating. A few months after that, I participated in a music contest and won. I took my little trophy to school and rubbed it in his nose. I said to him, "What do you say now?"

Shakira

Rubbed Quotes #289368
#43. The color of the sky was like a length of white chalk turned on its side and rubbed into asphalt. Sanded
that was how the world looked, worked slowly down to no rough edges.

David Guterson

Rubbed Quotes #296360
#44. But that morning, standing at the window of my dorm roomas I buttoned my shirt, I felt like an entirely different person. It was as though someone had taken an eraser to my life and, instead of getting rid of the mess, had rubbed away all the parts that I'd wanted to keep.

Robyn Schneider

Rubbed Quotes #303707
#45. Onscreen, Foaly rubbed his eyelids with his index fingers.
Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Captain Short goes rogue once more. Hands up who's surprised. Anyone?

Eoin Colfer

Rubbed Quotes #323595
#46. We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

Vinoba Bhave

Rubbed Quotes #332225
#47. Fuck you. Hunter (I decided not to call him Liam anymore - Liam was a nice name for a nice guy, and it didn't fit this bastard at all) glanced at his friend, then rubbed a hand over his face. For a minute he looked tired. Jackass. I was going to laugh at his funeral.

Joanna Wylde

Rubbed Quotes #335103
#48. My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She's fierce and she's proud. I'd like to think some of that rubbed off on me.

Christopher Judge

Rubbed Quotes #346871
#49. Glasses clinked and voices rubbed each other.

Maya Angelou

Rubbed Quotes #355875
#50. Then an odd thing happened. Britney put her finger on the ridge of the painted glass and rubbed it. It made a perfect noise. The kind of noise that goes on and on as a beautiful noise does once it has wrung the ear. It was the chord of the wild sea.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

Rubbed Quotes #371600
#51. Q sucked in a breath, his face darkening as he rubbed the front of his trousers. Goddammit, do you have to be so fucking tempting?

Pepper Winters

Rubbed Quotes #374947
#52. And, as for the oil, it is a masterpiece. You'll see.
Before dinner that night, we tested it, dripping it onto slices of bread that had been rubbed with the flesh of tomatoes. It was like eating sunshine.

Peter Mayle

Rubbed Quotes #380280
#53. Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today.

Neil Simon

Rubbed Quotes #382989
#54. Georgie pretended to dance. She clung to Neal's shirt. They rubbed their noses together. "You're my wife," Neal said, and then he laughed, and she tried to catch his dimples with her teeth. (Like if she caught them she might get to keep them.)
"Yours," she said.

Rainbow Rowell

Rubbed Quotes #389927
#55. All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.

Kenan Evren

Rubbed Quotes #408916
#56. Now, I get how strange this is going to sound, but good old Craig here calling Mr. Cole a "fucking dick" somehow rubbed me the wrong way. I inexplicably felt like I was the only person in the world who'd earned that privilege.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

Rubbed Quotes #417420
#57. One must bear what cannot be escaped," she told Alma, as she rubbed clean her face. "You will not die of your grief - no more than the rest of us ever have.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Rubbed Quotes #418359
#58. 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.

Shannon Hale

Rubbed Quotes #433134
#59. You know Morse Code?" Avian asked as we walked up.
"My grandpa thought it was a fun game when I was little," West said as he rubbed his eyes again. "That's a scientist's version of fun for you.

Keary Taylor

Rubbed Quotes #437261
#60. Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast.

Patience Gray

Rubbed Quotes #445339
#61. My dad was a really intense competitor and that rubbed off on me. He was loud and vocal on the court, so I let him do all the talking. But I developed a kind of quiet intensity that I knew I had to have to improve and compete with grown men. It took every ounce of focus.

Karch Kiraly

Rubbed Quotes #453324
#62. Each photograph is a magic lamp rubbed by the mind.

Diane Ackerman

Rubbed Quotes #454488
#63. He rubbed my arm, whispering words that sounded like moth bodies flying into glass windows.

Lauren DeStefano

Rubbed Quotes #455030
#64. Nev was the man in the parlor and the painter in his studio, the banker and the rugby player. The boyfriend who bought her prawn crisps and rubbed her back when she cried. The tender lover. The caged beast who came out to play when they got naked together. He could be any of them.

Ruthie Knox

Rubbed Quotes #461421
#65. My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.

Zachary Cole Smith

Rubbed Quotes #463164
#66. The edges of her voice had been rubbed thin by anxiety.

Cassandra Clare

Rubbed Quotes #474581
#67. I, uh, love you," D repeated. He clumsily rubbed the back of his neck, then his cheeks. Either she was imagining it, or his fingers were actually trembling.

Elle Kennedy

Rubbed Quotes #475102
#68. Will he really give her that heart box of candy?" I'd asked the shiny ball. Digital words spelled out across the surface in reply, "Not sure, try again". I immediately rubbed it again and got "Concentrate and ask once more". One more vigorous scrub gave me, "Try again later". So frustrating!

P.T. Michelle

Rubbed Quotes #484801
#69. [N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Rebecca West

Rubbed Quotes #493153
#70. Yes. Fortunately, before I died, I put a plan into motion. I can't remember it, but I'm certain that it was brilliant."
"You know, I've said something similar myself on occasion, after a night of drinking." Kelsier rubbed his chin. "I'm free too.

Brandon Sanderson

Rubbed Quotes #505447
#71. My attorney rubbed his hand across his mustache and the corners of his lips several times, as though the allegation was a piece of cake he'd just eaten that had deposited crumbs all over his mouth.

Alissa Nutting

Rubbed Quotes #514296
#72. His thumb rubbed the center of my palm. All my nerves concentrated there, alive to every movement of his skin on mine.

E. Lockhart

Rubbed Quotes #560627
#73. You have underwear."
"I'm glad you enjoyed it. Did you try it on?"
"Nah. Just rubbed it against my face.

Linda Howard

Rubbed Quotes #596011
#74. Something I had always known - the way I knew my skin was the color brown of a nut rubbed repeatedly with a soft cloth, or the way I knew my own name - something I took completely for granted, "the sun is shining, the air is warm," was not so.

Jamaica Kincaid

Rubbed Quotes #601085
#75. Reed kissed the both then stripped down. Hannah whistled and he shook his ass.
"Dude. Never. Do. That. Again." Maddox rubbed his eyes. "I think I'm blind."
Whoops, forgot he was there. Whatever.

Carrie Ann Ryan

Rubbed Quotes #605550
#76. The chili-rubbed rib-eye at Porter House New York is one of the best steaks that I've eaten anywhere in the world.

Martin Bashir

Rubbed Quotes #605562
#77. I'm not annoyed by you," he said.
"No?"
He smiled. "No."
"What are you?" she whispered, still staring at his mouth.
"Lots of things." He pulled her up and rubbed his thumb over the stain on her jaw, feeling a surge of satisfaction when her breath caught again. "Including turned on.

Jill Shalvis

Rubbed Quotes #608538
#78. Something Rich and Strange
She was less of what she had been, the blue rubbed from her eyes, flesh freed from the chandelier of bone. He touched what once had been a hand. The river whispered to him that it would not be long now.

Ron Rash

Rubbed Quotes #609517
#79. I rubbed him along his back, letting him know I was there for him, and if we did have our brains sucked out at least we were together.

Mark Alders

Rubbed Quotes #609673
#80. There's a lot of influences that I have from Detroit that are subliminal. I mean, I spent the first 10 years of my life there. My mom and dad were born and raised there, so a lot of that rubbed off on me. When I get angry, sometimes a Detroit accent comes out.

Lizzo

Rubbed Quotes #616492
#81. He bought our foreheads together. "I would risk anything to have you." He cupped my face and leaned in, his lips brushing mine. His thumbs rubbed over my cheeks, as if he couldn't caress me enough, couldn't feel me enough.

Kresley Cole

Rubbed Quotes #639226
#82. A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

Lee Iacocca

Rubbed Quotes #647268
#83. She put her hands to her face and rubbed, then dug her fingers into her scalp, trying to massage some life back into her tired brain.

Thea Harrison

Rubbed Quotes #648105
#84. How do you feel?"
He rubbed his stomach. "Like I've been eating Styrofoam.

Dan Brown

Rubbed Quotes #659971
#85. Tell me, Bronn. If I told you to kill a babe ... an infant girl, say, still at her mother's breast ... would you do it? Without question?
Without question? No. The sellsword rubbed thumb and forefinger together. I'd ask how much.

George R R Martin

Rubbed Quotes #671554
#86. Reckon women don't think like men." "Why on earth don't they learn how?" I rubbed my face. "Ain't meant to, honey." I smiled and kissed his brow. "It occurs to us to ask the same thing. Keeps the world turning, I suspect.

Nancy E. Turner

Rubbed Quotes #674855
#87. The owner of a Florida massage parlor has been arrested by police. "There weren't any serious violations," said the officers, "she just rubbed us the wrong way."

George Carlin

Rubbed Quotes #693720
#88. Who are you?" he asked.
"I'm a shabti, of course!" The figurine rubbed his dented head. He still looked quite lumpish, only now he was a living lump. "Master calls me Doughboy, though I find the name insulting. You may call me Supreme-Force-Who-Crushes-His-Enemies!

Rick Riordan

Rubbed Quotes #710915
#89. I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.

Anthony Liccione

Rubbed Quotes #713587
#90. I rubbed my head against his chest like a cat soliciting attention and marking her territory. I couldn't get close enough. I wished humans had a pouch like kangaroos.. I would happily climb in and let Griff tote me around everywhere.

Genna Rulon

Rubbed Quotes #714773
#91. The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.

Oswald Chambers

Rubbed Quotes #715674
#92. He rubbed his hands up and down, warming her. Then that's all you need to know. I have you. If there are beasties in the dark, they have to get through me

Tessa Dare

Rubbed Quotes #728664
#93. Look, Adam said. He rubbed a finger over the dust of the back window. Next to a Blink-182 sticker was an Aglionby decal.

Maggie Stiefvater

Rubbed Quotes #742039
#94. That's the first time you've said my name." He rubbed their lips together. "Whisper it again in my ear, then I'll go.

Tessa Bailey

Rubbed Quotes #753178
#95. Amy, honey." He rubbed my arm gently, as if telling me bad news. "You shouldn't listen to me. I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

Rosemary Clement-Moore

Rubbed Quotes #756223
#96. I rubbed the contents of one bag onto my upper arm on the evening of June 7, just before I went to bed. I thought: Well, it can't hurt. I flushed the packaging down the toilet.

Patrik Sinkewitz

Rubbed Quotes #757366
#97. Rivera rubbed his temples. "Satan told you to do it?" he said wearily.
"No."
"Elvis?"
"I told you, it's supernatural.

Christopher Moore

Rubbed Quotes #762444
#98. She rubbed it onto his hands one day in Year Eleven, feeling the texture of his fingertips, callused by the strings of his guitar, and his palms, rough from woodwork. ("Productive, despite your lazy streak," she had said, inspecting them.)

Melina Marchetta

Rubbed Quotes #763039
#99. My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit.

Brian Acton

Rubbed Quotes #769135
#100. I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

Freida Pinto

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