Rubbing Back Quotes

#1. Stories and objects share something, a patina ... Perhaps patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed ... But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing.

Edmund De Waal

#2. I'm pretty sure my stomach has a sliver in it from rubbing up against my backbone, so back off, bitch.

H.J. Bellus

#3. I hear you're going to boarding school," she said. "Whose idea was that?"
"Mine," I said.
"I could never send Kyle to boarding school," Audrey said.
"I guess you love Kyle more than my mom loves me," I said, and played my flute as I skipped down the hall.

Maria Semple

#4. We took a sledgehammer to the rules of English and reassembled the pieces into a language only we understood.

Anthony Marra

#5. The question that a lot of people ask me all the time is how did you make it? The truth be told, it was nothing but the grace of God.

Tyler Perry

#6. This is the part where they try to make you remember," said Sadie. She looked at my wrists. "Is it working?" Without realizing it, I'd pushed one sleeve of my pajamas up and was rubbing the gauze that circled my wrist. I stopped, and let the sleeve fall back where it was.

Michael Thomas Ford

#7. She felt like backing into his crotch and pressing her back into his chest. And then maybe rubbing against him a little.

Jessica Lemmon

#8. At some point Levi had put his left arm around her and pulled her back against his chest - she'd been fidgeting and rubbing her back on the wall, and Levi just reached behind her and pulled her into him.

Rainbow Rowell

#9. Annabel stopped rubbing the center of her lower back and ducked her head to hide the blush his words had brought on. It made Ross want to kiss her. Reminded

Lynsay Sands

#10. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Jackson Pollock

#11. If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll make a good mate.

Marcus Du Sautoy

#12. Rubbing herself against a sleeping man just wasn't on. It was morally questionable. Probably illegal. Definitely icky. But why oh why did bad things always feel so damn good? Just once more, she promised herself as she pushed back into him again. "Addie, I am not made of stone.

Amy Andrews

#13. When you get a typical injury, you're given a time frame; you're gradually working towards getting back. With concussions, there is not generally a time frame or a span where you're feeling better. You feel like you're getting better, and it can be one day and you're back to where you started.

Sidney Crosby

#14. He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

Sophie Swetchine

#15. First you find out what you have , Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.

Lilith Saintcrow

#16. I held her head to my shoulder, rocking her, rubbing her back. Poor thing, I don't think she know where to put the whole world.

Shannon Hale

#17. I love you, Hermione," said Ron, sinking back, rubbing his eyes wearily.
Hermione turned faintly pink, but merely said, "Don't let Lavender hear you saying that."
"I won't," said Ron into his hands. "Or maybe I will ... then she'll ditch me ...

J.K. Rowling

#18. Nobody's perfect, and everybody plays the heel and the baby face at times in real life.

Box Brown

#19. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

Mel Brooks

#20. Praise your God in a silent and humbly manner instead of rubbing his back with loud praises while silently committing horrendous acts.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#21. You're insane," I told him, and stood up to dress.
He hugged me from behind, pressing hard against me, rubbing his smooth chest along my back. He spoke into my ear, "Insane for you, my love.

R.K. Lilley

#22. As for your back rubs ... Study an anatomy book, pal, because what you've been rubbing isn't my back.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#23. As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.

Hortense Odlum

#24. Jealous?' Luce asked. They were alone now. She threw her arms around his broad shoulders and looked deep into his violet eyes. 'Why would you be jealous?'
'Because,' he said, rubbing his hands across her back. 'Your dance card is full. For all eternity.

Lauren Kate

#25. He didn't hold the door open, instead letting it fly back and knock me in the face.
"Thanks," I muttered, rubbing my nose.
"You're welcome," he said, my sarcasm lost on him as always.

A Meredith Walters

#26. When you practice yoga, first your personality changes, the faith increases, then confidence improves

Bikram Choudhury

#27. I walk into the clubhouse today and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic. We have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol, and by the 7th inning he'd already drunk it.

Tommy Lasorda

#28. But the root cause of this war was geopolitical. Georgia was determined to go West and Russia was determined to stop it from doing so.

Ronald D. Asmus

#29. The Dick tells us that Denny once worked on some arson cases, but I'd wager a mortgage payment that those cases took place when you created fire by rubbing two sticks together so you could cook the stegosaurus you killed with a spear and dragged back to the cave.

James Patterson

#30. This thought was interrupted, suddenly, by a crash from the front entrance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam bending back from the glass, rubbing his arm.
"Pull open," Maggie called out. As Leah rolled her eyes, she said, "He never remembers. It's so weird.

Sarah Dessen

#31. Ty didn't just lower himself, though. He rolled his hips and arched his back, rubbing his ass against the head of Zane's cock but always missing the entry, making a show of it.

Abigail Roux

#32. I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against my lips. For some reason, it's soothing. A cool kiss

Suzanne Collins

#33. Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.

Rachel Kushner

#34. I'm a hard worker, and everything with me is, if I work hard, I should get paid for it. Everything with me, I try to symbolize something flashy like jewelry or a car. The rubbing hands is a symbol of hustling, so it goes back to the money.

Birdman

#35. [Peabody:] "Bite me."
Though Eve managed to swallow a chuckle at her aide's use of her own standard response to annoyances, she didn't quite make it over McNab's cheerful, "Where?

J.D. Robb

#36. Animals of every kind live on the Other Side, .. you are not crazy if you feel the spirit of your cat rubbing against your legs, hear the sound of your dog's toenails clicking on the wood floor, or hear the familiar song your bird used to sing. Our pets do come back to visit us.

Sylvia Browne

#37. Christ," he muttered, rubbing the back of his neck. "The first time I traveled, I attacked an automobile with an umbrella and nearly pissed myself in terror. So when I say you are taking this well, I hope you'll believe me.

Alexandra Bracken

#38. When are you going to grow up and stop sleeping around?"

I sat back in my chair, rubbing a hand over face, trying to wake up a little more. "When my dick shrivels up and falls off," I joked.

Kirsty Moseley

#39. L.A.'s magic has let me see every level of the dream.

Robert Crais