Rubber Expansion Joints

Famous quotes containing the words rubber, expansion and/or joints:

    “Time for the flat-headed man. I recognize that listener,
    Him with the platitudes and rubber doughnuts,
    Melting at the knees, a varicose horror.
    Hello, hello. My nerves knew you, dear boy.
    Have you come to unhinge my shadow?”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    “The fundamental steps of expansion that will open a person, over time, to the full flowering of his or her individuality are the same for both genders. But men and women are rarely in the same place struggling with the same questions at the same age.”
    —Gail Sheehy (20th century)

    “To round that shell’s elaborate whorl,
    Adorning every secret track
    With the delicate mother-of-pearl,
    Made the joints of Heaven crack....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)