Rusty Quotes

92 quotes by 83 authors

I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes. — Augusten Burroughs
Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. — William Shakespeare
One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they… — Sigmund Freud
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the… — Hans Zinsser
American airstrikes...create risks, especially if our intelligence there is rusty. The crucial step, and the one we should apply diplomatic pressure to try to achieve,… — Nicholas D. Kristof
When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them. — Hugh Latimer
The heart becomes sick, as the body becomes sick, and its remedy is al-Tawbah (repentance) and protection [from transgression]. It becomes rusty as a mirror… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come… — Rudyard Kipling
If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate. — Frank Stallone
What is the crowning glory of your civilization... the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What is this symbol?… — George Nelson
Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes. It wasn't pride… — Pablo Neruda
Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty. — George Singleton
So I go to the studio, and just say, 'Hi Paul, it's me, Rusty.' I think I kept it together pretty well, although I was… — Rusty Anderson
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. — John Cheever
Love opens all doors, no matter how closed they may be, no matter how rusty from lack of use. Your work is to bring unity… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The recollection of an injury is . . . a rusty arrow and poison for the soul. — Francis of Paola
Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle. — Truman Capote
When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do. — Bessie Smith
Well, let's take what people think is a dignified death. Christ - was that a dignified death? Do you think it's dignified to hang from… — Jack Kevorkian
Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal… — Paul Fussell

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