Rub Quotes

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one’s steps, and reach the air above, there’s the rub.

Kevin Nash had a swagger about him. A lot of those things that I watch kind of rub off on me.

Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.

The pedicure is beside the point – the rub is all I care about. And not just my feet, my calves and thighs. There is nothing better, except maybe a scalp massage.

It’s not mainland China that rubs me up the wrong way, it is the dictatorship that rubs me up the wrong way. It’s the freedom that we Chinese people are not allowed that rubs me up the wrong way.

I write to satisfy the story or poem or piece of fascinating research that speaks to me. To rub a sore, to resonate with joy, to answer a question no one else has satisfactorily answered for me.

Don’t sit there and complain. Rub your hands together and figure out what to do.

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.

I had this mentality that I had to go out to everyone’s show so everyone at the end of the week would come to mine – that I had to go out and rub elbows, find exposure. A small part of that is true. But if something is good, people will notice when you put it out.

Some voices don’t blend. They just kinda rub against each other.

I used to have this lucky rock and I used to always have to rub it three times before I competed.

To be able to rub shoulders with kids who have spent their entire lives studying the classics… that’s something I need to improve my overview.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it’s not something that’s going to come to you overnight.

If you are going to wrestle a bear, try to stay away from all fish oil products, you know. I mean it’s tough for me, because I love to rub myself with salmon oil every day – it’s a great conditioner for the hair, skin.

When you are continuing to be in debt or are going deeper into it, every time a creditor calls, it rubs your face not only in how vulnerable you are, but that people are out to get something from you that you don’t have to give.

I’ve always felt my wife had class and a lot more culture than I do, and I’ve seen that rub off on Eli.

Before shows, we rub elbows and growl. It started once when someone had a cold, and we didn’t want to hug each other. So we started rubbing elbows. And we don’t kiss. We just go, ‘Grrrr!’

My husband knows I’m not a big material person – we’re very lucky to have lovely things, but I want a foot rub or to just sit and talk.

I think Liverpool generates generosity which rubs off – it’s a good place to work and to party.

If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.

There is no ‘magic water’ that you can rub on a script to make the jokes funnier.

I just work really, really hard every day, and I think that probably rubs off on people.

Jericho is generally considered a main event guy, as he should be. He’s a future Hall of Famer, I believe. So any rub, for lack of a better term, that AJ Styles can get from Chris Jericho is positive.

I could spend a whole day at a spa. I’d get a facial, a scalp rub, massages, then eat some grapes and be good to go.

A guy stopped me in the street the other day as I was skipping and singing to myself while walking with my son, Hudson who was also dancing along. I didn’t even realize I was doing it, it was just happening, and that made me smile. It rubs off on Hudson and it even rubbed off on a total stranger.

When you’ve got your man down, rub him out.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Dab – don’t rub – cream formulas onto your skin. Rubbing washes out the color, so do that only if you’ve put on too much.

At the end of the day, no one asks a woman, ‘Do you need a neck rub? Do you need a drink, honey?’

Tip your drag queens, bartenders, and don’t rub your chopsticks together at the sushi restaurant. Also, just in general, don’t be a dirtbag human.

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.

I’m a ‘frotteur,’ someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible. Does that word in this sentence have any electric potential? Does it do anything? Too much electricity will make your reader’s hair frizzy. There’s a question of pacing.

I love foot rubs, too. I’ll take one whenever I can.

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

It’s very frustrating when you don’t always get the right kind of rub – you watch tennis and know if you play better than the other guy, you win. But that’s the game we play. It can create mini-upsets.

Once you see the leader of the team, the point guard of the team who has the ball pretty much the whole time in the game directing everybody, I think it just rubs off on everybody.

When I was a kid it was big news when someone flew around the world in a little aeroplane, but nobody cared when I did it. Then, to rub salt into my wounds, the customs people ripped my aeroplane to pieces, looking for stuff.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say ‘Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.’

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

If I am making a spice rub or a spice mix for a braise or even just to crust a piece of fish, I’ll use mustard seeds. If you soak them in a little bit of vinegar and let them get plumped and soft and then you puree them, they’re delicious.

My viewers actually know about my little routine for spraying perfume. I put it on my wrists and rub them together, then I spray a little bit on my neck and three spritzes in front of me and then I shimmy through them.

On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I’m often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I’m back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.

I’m a bad loser, but I’m not a good winner either – I like to rub it in people’s faces!

I like to cook my crepes in a little butter, which gives them a nice, golden-brown color and lacy-looking surface. I rub a thin layer into a preheated skillet, then wipe out all the excess with a paper towel.

I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people.

When I used to play for Peterborough I played against loads of players who, now I’ve stepped up into the Premiership, I believe could have played at this level. You just need to have the rub of the green.

Sometimes I just rub the fruit that I eat for breakfast on my face to hydrate it and give it a nice glow.

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

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

My mum was very determined and motivated and always wanted the best for us. That rubs off on you.

I’m not one of those people that’s to myself and just quiet. I’ve never been like that, man. I’ve always been kind of loud. I’m out there, man. I do my thing, but I don’t do it disrespectful. But when people rub me the wrong way, I rub people the wrong way. But I say what I say and I mean what I say.

If I meet somebody and I’m like, ‘Hey, how you doing?’ And you give somebody a hug, or a half-hug, and they stank and it rubs off on me, that is contagious ’cause I’ll be smelling like roses and then it’s like, ‘Wait a minute.’ I’ll change shirts and I’m still funky.

I’m here to be the guy that rubs people the wrong way sometimes.

Sometimes I rub people the wrong way, although I’m very polite.

It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it’s no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I’d have the success they had.

Just following ‘Survivor’ over the years, sometimes if an individual is not a threat and he doesn’t rub anybody the wrong way and he can get into an alliance, he can hang out there for a while.

My dad wasn’t a gangster, and he wasn’t a criminal, but he sure liked to rub padded shoulders with them.

‘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.

Certain things just rub me the wrong way.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub, the task.

I don’t necessarily get rubs from championships, I’d like to feel the championship gets a rub off of me.

I don’t want to be that guy that’s either arrogant or rubs people the wrong way.

Let’s just not sort of rub grandeur in people’s faces.

Based on a taut screenplay by Nabendu Ghosh, ‘Do Anjane’ was a Hindi adaptation of Nihar Ranjan Gupta’s famous Bengali novel, ‘Ratrir Yatri.’ It was my first chance to rub shoulders with the immensely talented Amitabh Bachchan and we went on to become a super hit pair.

Dry rubs are as integral to downhome barbeque as smoke.

I’m just trying to use my happiness and motivation to rub off on other people around me.

If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I’d love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie.

Sometimes you get the rub of the green, sometimes you don’t.

One of your tasks is to separate the ‘personal’ from the ‘substantive.’ The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

I had an older brother that would beat me in everything, and then he would rub my nose in it, and that made me work even harder.

I’m going to be a dad in a couple of weeks and by the grace of God, He’s allowing me to see this moment and I can’t wait. I think about it every day. My fiance and I have pillow talk about it every day, all day. I rub her belly, I’m blessed and I can’t wait for my little princess to get here.

Wouldn’t it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, ‘Nobody was harmed in the making of this film, and at the cast party, all animals got a belly belly belly rub.’

Everybody loves Vegas, and everybody puts it down, especially intellectuals and artists. We have to rub our feet on it, but we’re all secretly thrilled to be there.

I love yoga… I also see an Ayurvedic doctor, which is an ancient Indian thing. I go and see the doctor to balance my system twice a year; it’s preventative. They take my pulse, give me some herbs, and tell me what I should eat and what I should avoid. They rub oil on me too, it’s so lovely. It’s like a detox.

I’m like a renegade and that rubs people wrong.

She’s definitely an angel sent from above. How can that not rub off on a man? What can I say? I’m a mama’s boy.

I care about the way I look, and I want to look my best. My regime isn’t crazy. For my face, it’s just sunscreen because foundations and tinted moisturizers rub against my neck warmer. But I do like eyeliner, mascara, and a little color on my lids.

3AW approached me – I didn’t approach them – and it is just an absolute opportunity of a lifetime in my 68th year to come home and rub shoulders with the people I am most comfortable with.

Some people work their entire lives to become a professional fighter and see certain guys with exposure or just a name, hop into the professional ranks. It can rub people the wrong way and have them very doubtful of your skills because they see first-hand the hard work and how many years it takes to master this.

That’s the rub about ‘Community’ – for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of sentimental identification. We watch it because we like these people and we miss them when they don’t show up. They become part of the stories we tell ourselves.

Coconut oil. I rub it through my hair, all over my skin, all over my body. Natural’s the better way to go.

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.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

It’s no secret that in my books I’m trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.

In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather like I would a shoe wax. Then I spit-shine it and buff it with a cloth, and my shoes look great.

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

Don’t be afraid to play with combinations and quantities of spices to create your own bespoke spice rub.

If I could only have one grooming tool, it would be floss. I don’t want to have broken Cheetos in my teeth. To protect myself from the sun, I can find shade under a tree. To moisturize my skin, I could get really sweaty and then just rub it on myself. But how are you going to clean between your teeth without floss?

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

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.

Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

Savio Vega kept pushing me, pushing me, as he was teaching me, too, how to be a heel and things. And how to… ‘Let’s just try this tonight: just, we’ll lock up, you’ll go behind me, rub up and down my chest.’

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

There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t bless myself with holy water and then get in my car and rub the medal of the Virgin Mary that she gave me and say a Hail Mary for my mother. And then I kiss her Mass card that’s right there on the dashboard.

I always hated the thought of not having two pennies to rub together.

Hollandaise, I would like to pour over my head and just rub all over myself. Eggs Benedict is genius. It’s eggs covered in eggs.

In a very short time I have not only increased the age limit in the government service in Chandigarh from 25 to 37 years but also got approved the flyover at the Tribune Chowk and RUB at Mani Majra.

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.

Men don’t know how to act like men sometimes. Take the trash out. Open up the door. Rub my feet. I mean, it’s a two-way street!

Seeing a woman project the kind of aggression that you have to project as a comic just rubs me wrong.

My message for young parents is that although it is very natural to worry, it doesn’t lead to anything. Try to live positively because your attitude is going to rub off on your children.

I’m not trying to rub shoulders with any record executives. If rubbing shoulders in the industry is what I wanted to do then I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing.

As a society, we somehow encourage the culture of silence. We are scared to rub powerful people the wrong way for fear of repercussions it might have on our career or social standing. Apathy of authorities does not help matters.

I’m a very vengeful person – if someone didn’t wanna get on board with me and I’m doing it well I’m gonna rub it in their face.

Blotting pads are great in case you get sweaty or oily. But don’t rub. It’s a slow, methodical blot: set the pad on your skin and let it absorb, then move it to the next location.

We’re dealing with the chaos of life, and we’re rubbing it down. The deeper you rub, the more patterns you can see until you realize that it’s really an organized chaos. There isn’t really ever any chance to understand it all, but we’re here to keep rubbing.

There’s too many actors in LA. I mean, I’ll go out there from time to time, but I always find it pretty soul-destroying. I don’t drive, and the people kind of rub me the wrong way. It’s just not home. You know? It’s not New York. It’s not… my town.

I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that’s good.