Rusty Quotes
92 quotes by 83 authors
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Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came…
— Wallace Stegner
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The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
— Gareth Gates
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Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.
— Ray Bradbury
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A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
— Robert Hughes
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
— Quincy Jones
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
— Walter Scott
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When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days,…
— Hermann Hesse
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We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's just the way…
— Ani DiFranco
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You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind…
— Raymond Chandler
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Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all…
— Orson Scott Card
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And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you…
— Sylvia Plath
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It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of…
— Anne Lamott
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God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we…
— Sylvia Plath
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There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.
— Frank Herbert
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Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much to compare our…
— Scott Westerfeld
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I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must…
— Ilona Andrews
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Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as…
— Norton Juster
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The drab brown front of the house made it look as if it had been built from rusty spare parts. Someone always put lace curtains…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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Have you been drinking this morning? How did you miss me? I swear I’ve fought old women with better reflexes. (Takeshi) The fact you fight…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the…
— Wilson Rawls
Who Wrote These Rusty Quotes
83 authors contributed a total of 92 Rusty Quotes, led by these top contributors: