Rusty Quotes

92 quotes by 83 authors

Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it… — Pico Iyer
Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow -- now… — Ted Kooser
Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a… — Terry Pratchett
Character, character, character. First, second and third ... we were pretty rusty initially. When you have a break for a few weeks you get a… — Graham Henry
I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm. — Tom Waits
It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle. — Garrison Keillor
Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits… — Henry David Thoreau
Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years. — Allen Ginsberg
I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic. — Paul Allen
I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings. — Jane Goodall
My dad told me he knew where to find Zay. Which meant I had to cooperate with him....Do you see what we have accomplished together?… — Devon Monk
Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall. — Nate Berkus
In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes… — Andrew Sullivan
The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and… — Charles Dickens
You know the Model of your Car. You know just what its powers are. You treat it with a deal of care, Nor tax it… — John Kendrick Bangs
A Pentagon official once said the people who would actually push the button probably have never seen a person die. He said the only hope… — Robin Williams
I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty. — Navid Negahban
Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army… — Robert A. Cook
Starting out, I bet I didn't get a lot of parts because of my strange voice. I'm not consciously thinking, 'Hey, sound like a squeaky… — Charlie Day
When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable… — David Dewhurst

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