Rub

Famous quotes containing the word rub:

“O Bee,
yoked with greed
for a drink of sap,
the jasmine bud
hasn’t even opened
its petals
in the least,
and yet
you rub against it.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

“I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with grief and anger, as he did.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)