Rubbian Quotes & Sayings

Main Street is almost alright. — Robert Venturi

When was the last time you did something for the first time? — John C. Maxwell

My voice had bayou gut them slipping out of their story like a bookmark forgotten by a reader between the pages — Cornelia Funke

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction. — Rem Koolhaas

What was justice, after all, but a particular outcome? — Suzanne Rindell

A life of faith is not a life of one glorious mountaintop experience after another, like soaring on eagles' wings, but is a life of day-in and day-out consistency; a life of walking without fainting (see Isaiah 40:31). — Oswald Chambers

I gave a speech once," he said suddenly and apparently unconnectedly. "You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number." "Er, five," said the mattress. "Wrong," said Marvin. "You see?" The mattress was much impressed by this and realized that it was in the presence of a not unremarkable mind. It willomied along its entire length sending excited little ripples through its shallow algae-covered pool. — Douglas Adams

The way you walked away
The way you stopped and waited
All that time
What was in your heart?
A laugh?
A sarcasm?

Couldn't we be lovers?
Though we have never walked together — Shasika Amali Munasinghe

The old man had often praised his strength. He had always been generous in his praise. It was all he had to give. — Anonymous

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive. — Miuccia Prada

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. — Richard L. Evans

I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work. — Paul Auster

He was already intuiting that attachment - if only to a squirt gun - made him vulnerable. — Lionel Shriver

Part of why I like watercolor is that mistakes are visible, and you can't really repair much. It has to look easy. When it comes out, it looks easy, but to get to that point takes a lot of doing. — Chris Raschka