Quotes of: Rubber-stamp Keyword

Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.

Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp: An Interview-Novel with Questions Asked and Answers Recorded by László Szigeti

Norm Gunderson: They announced it. Marge Gunderson: They announced it? Norm Gunderson: Yeah. Marge Gunderson: So? Norm Gunderson: Three-cent stamp. Marge Gunderson: Your mallard? Norm Gunderson: Yeah. Marge Gunderson: Oh, that's terrific. Norm Gunder...

Fargo

Anybody have any money?” Frank checked his pockets. “Three denarii from Camp Jupiter. Five dollars Canadian.” Hedge patted his gym shorts and pulled out what he found. “Three quarters, two dimes, a rubber band and—score! A piece of celery.�...

The Mark of Athena

A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment.

Peter O'Toole

He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and fable in his school and library. Still he hungers. For stories.

The Stamp Collector

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar...

Rand Paul

It's rare that I'm able to get to my desk in the morning without stopping halfway there, turning around, and going in the opposite direction because of a pressing need to straighten all the pictures on the walls, floss my teeth a second time, and mak...

Rosemary Mahoney

Boys are like elastic bands. It doesn't mean that boys are made of elastic, which is a plus because nobody wants a boyfriend made out of rubber. On the other hand, if they were made out of rubber, you could save yourself a lot of time and effort and ...

On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

To the Greeks, the word "character" first referred to the stamp upon a coin. By extension, man was the coin, and the character trait was the stamp imprinted upon him. To them, that trait, for example bravery, was a share of something all mankind had,...

The Greek Way

I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of a human bodies, and so I think it h...

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

The library knows that it is a temporary fix. We have a stamp for the inside front cover: BROKEN SPINE NOTED. It is like a bracelet worn by a diabetic. When you return the book with this message stamped inside, we know you're not the one responsible ...

Don Borchert

Eddie: Don't forget the rubber sheets and gerbils.

Christmas Vacation

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

Alan K. Simpson

New Rule: If we want to find a place to cut government waste, we must start with the DEA rubber duck. Yes, on the DEA's website you can buy a rubber ducky with a DEA badge and a cop's hat. Which I recommend doing, because they're a great place to hid...

The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

Theodor Adorno

Undercook swordfish, and you get rubber. Overcook it, and you lose the fat and succulence.

Geoffrey Zakarian

The stamp is something left over from an inpatient hospital program. In some other program RELEASED used to mean a client was set free. Now it means a client is dead. Nobody wanted to special-order a stamp that said DEAD. The caseworker told me this ...

Survivor

Says here there's a reward," Mr. Hooks said. Tallie blinked, then remembered Keith had added that tidbit for incentive. She opened her purse and scrutinized the contents of her slim wallet--twelve dollars and a book of stamps. She handed over the ten...

Whole Lotta Trouble

Harold: Maude? Maude: Yeah? Harold: [pulls the stamped coin from the arcade out of his pocket] Here. Maude: A gift! [reads the engraving] Maude: "Harold loves Maude."... and Maude loves Harold. This is the nicest gift I've received in years. [she thr...

Harold and Maude

Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

Katarina Witt