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«Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you»
Author: Damon Runyon (Journalist, Writer) | About: Money | Keywords: rub, rub off, rub up
«Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.»
«When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near»
«When your cat rubs the side of its face along your leg, it's affectionately marking you with its scent, identifying you as its private property, saying, in effect, 'You belong to me'»
«I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.»
«It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.»
«When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.»
«There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere . . .»
«The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes.»
«To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;»

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