But the one thing you can say about me is that I'm very resilient. I always bounce back. I'm like a rubber ball.
I know it will be the thing that'll be my epitaph: They won't say anything about my movies, I'll be this guy in a rubber mask.
Love is like a rubber band,
Both pull on, one release
And it hurts the person who has held it.
I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.
The squiggly rubber Davy Jones face in 'Pirates' with the tentacles, barnacles and goobers - that's modeled on me.
I definitely like the rubber guard. I always try to use it, especially when I'm just grappling or at the gym.
It's not so bad that I can't touch my toes. But I'm not one of the most flexible guys. When you look at Novak Djokovic, you'd probably think he's made of rubber.
When I was young, I could bounce back from things like a brand-new rubber ball.
Five years ago, when I was elected, I had the feeling that the president doesn't have much to do. I've realized, though, that this is not a rubber-stamp position.
I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.
I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.
Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.'
Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.
And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet.
On 'Ant-Man', I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who's played by Michael Douglas.
The one complaint about the Internet that I wholeheartedly endorse is that most of these tools have been designed to peck at us like ducks: 'Hey, there's a new reply to your comment! Come look at it!'
I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips
I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.
There are no Rabbits in the north-west. This statement, far from final, is practically true today, but I saw plenty of Lynxes, and one cannot write of ducks without mentioning water.
We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.
They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons and themselves.
What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?
He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.
The only thing I keep from the races I've won are the handle bar grips from the bike, the rubber bits.
I used to burn rubber at every light, mean mugging everything there was, cause that was my attitude.
In a game I'm, like, 'Rubber Man' or something but, off the pitch, I'm the least flexible person you could imagine.
I'm all about simple, elegant, and effective, and when I wear the rubber boot on my head, it draws a lot of attention.
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
I needed a capo - a clamp to hold down the strings - so my daddy made me one out of a corn on the cob and a rubber band.
When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.
When the British ruled Malaysia, they burnt millions of acres of Malaysian forests so that they could plant rubber.
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.
The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars.
The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.
The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.
I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time.
Our educational system now teaches every kid the same thing. It's like rubber stamping!
I was just thinking of bunding up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks in Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet hair back and favoring Jem with a rare smile.
I spent a lot of Saturday night on BBC television, being chased around by yellow rubber balls.
If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare
Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.
I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.
I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.
There is nothing romantic about teargas. Or smoke bombs or rubber bullets or sound cannons.
The talk shows I've done are all radio for exactly this reason: I don't want to wear a rubber mask.
Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire.
I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.
Beneath the light, the river and hills are beautiful, The spring breeze bears the fragrance of flowers and grass. The mud has thawed, and swallows fly around. On the warm sand, mandarin ducks are sleeping.
Don't waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar.
To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size.
If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood.
If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she’d end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.
I've always loved plastics and rubber, and it's such a specifically unique material that you have to have the manufacturing abilities to make it.
Remakes are always a challenge and they always are sitting ducks.
If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare.
For years, I was either referred to as a 'rubber-faced funny man' or 'the 'Men Behaving Badly' star.'
I grew up in a small holding in Staffordshire near Tamworth, and we had a few ponies and chickens, ducks and dogs and my mum used to do horse-riding lessons, but we moved to Birmingham when I was 13.
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