Rust Quotes
178 quotes by 151 authors
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I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard…
— Ali Smith
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Just as gold tarnished in depth (cf. Jms. 5:3) cannot be properly purified and restored to its proper brightness unless it is cast in the…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want…
— Ben Vereen
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If foundations made of stone can turn to dust, then the hardest hearts of steel can turn to rust.
— Shania Twain
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The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.
— Antoine Rivarol
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I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.
— Jeanne Calment
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I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly…
— Matthias Schoenaerts
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Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us…
— Dalai Lama
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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
— Joan Baez
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No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct…
— Lawrence Durrell
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We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so…
— Max Planck
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We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon…
— Jack Gilbert
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Solitude may rust your words.
— Anais Nin
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Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
— W.C. Fields
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If you rest, you rust.
— Helen Hayes
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No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
— Milan Kundera
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I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air…
— Keith Moon
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I'd much rather wear out than rust out.
— Dan Rather
Who Wrote These Rust Quotes
151 authors contributed a total of 178 Rust Quotes, led by these top contributors: