Top 162 Rubbing Quotes & Sayings

I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.

Aladdin, who said to his wife, I know it's not a lamp, keep rubbing! Never got a dinner!

As comics if you aren't rubbing people the wrong way, to me, you suck.

I’m sorry, my lady,” said Geric, rubbing his arm. “But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.

Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.

Tact is rubbing out another's mistakes, not rubbing them in.

Rubbing meat or vegetables with sweet and savoury spices before roasting or sizzling on a grill is what summer nights are all about.

There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

My girlfriend said, Emo, I'm seeing another man. I said, Well, try rubbing your eyes or something.

Dab - don't rub - cream formulas onto your skin. Rubbing washes out the color, so do that only if you've put on too much.

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

Don't kill!... The fly is asking you To save his life By rubbing his hands together

I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,' and I hadn't really started shaving. I remember rubbing the soot from a kettle on to my bumfluff to make it look more like I had a beard.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

The planet is full and we will be rubbing shoulders forever. There is nowhere else to go.

By rubbing up against the world, I define myself to myself.

A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled.

Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.

You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.

Gojyo: That no good holy man's been rubbing off on you! Goku: Me? Like Sanzo?! What a rotten thing to say!

I'm not trying to rub shoulders with any record executives. If rubbing shoulders in the industry is what I wanted to do then I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing.

If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.

The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived by generalization from individual experiences; the statement means that rubbing wood in this way will always produce fire. The art of discovery is therefore the art of correct generalization. ... The separation of relevant from irrelevant factors is the beginning of knowledge.

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.

Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

My kids have been watching a lot of 'My Little Pony,' and it's rubbing off on me.

Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks together.

When I was 20, I was the hustler - rubbing my temples, stressed, trying to get out the streets, trying to take my life to another side of the game with something I really loved to do: rap music.

There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.

If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.

Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.

I spent 30 minutes each morning rubbing my body with half a lemon to lighten my skin.

No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech. If I were a horse, I’d let him ride me anywhere.

When I'm kissing someone, I don't want to feel as though I'm rubbing off all the makeup that's on their face or messing things around. I think natural is better.

From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

As you smell the fragrance of a flower by handing it or the smell of sandalwood by rubbing it against a stone, so you obtain spiritual awakening by constantly thinking of God.

If you watch a fly on, say, a coffee table, you'll see that they're rubbing their little legs together to groom themselves; they're actually quite clean creatures.

I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.

Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold.

Basically Ken is a very gentle, home-loving person. I remember when one of his stick insects had a knee infection. He stayed up all night rubbing it with germoline and banging its head on the table.

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

We're dealing with the chaos of life, and we're rubbing it down. The deeper you rub, the more patterns you can see until you realize that it's really an organized chaos. There isn't really ever any chance to understand it all, but we're here to keep rubbing.

Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.

If retirement means laying on a beach and rubbing coco butter on your stomach, about 48 hours of that will be enough for most people. You'll want something new.

Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.

I've always liked that idea of a diverse group of audience members sitting together, rubbing up against each other and taking on the life of a culture that doesn't belong to either one of them.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

My preparation is always mediation and deep breathing. And the rubbing of my hands together just gets my energy going.

I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to heat, A kind of infra-red longing.

The good thing about England - like, if I were in France, all people would be doing is rubbing my nose in Donald Trump. As if I voted for him. Just rubbing my nose in him. And in England, they'd be rubbing my nose in it too, except for Brexit. So that means they can't rub my nose in anything!

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

The political spectrum is not linear but circular. In my experience the extreme left always ends up rubbing shoulders with the extreme right. They are philosophically blood brothers.

The royal hound's belly demands rubbing. Step lively, humans, neglect me not." ~Oberon

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.