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Quotes About Rusty

I like SF environments that seem used, and lived in, every day; not just rolled off a props truck. Look around you! Everything is scuffed, scratched, dinged, faded, even rusty.
~ Antony Johnston
You have the right to make this determination, even if I don't appreciate it. But at times like this, I almost wish I could relax my standards. If I did, I might console myself with the possibility of using a dull, rusty needle on you someday.
~ Cathy Marie Hake
Out of air so blue you can take it between your fingers, rug, and bring them back blue, they watch the dot slowly grow into a rusty old reconnaissance plane.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
~ Navid Negahban
HALFWAY down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Your heart mirrors not His love, Rusty with your sins it is, Remove this rust and you shall Perceive how Glorious He is.
~ Rumi
When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm.
~ David Dewhurst
The software was never sold to anyone, and indeed could not have been; it was so legally encumbered by that point that it would have been like trying to sell someone a rusty Volkswagen that had been dismantled and its parts hidden in attack dog kennels all over the world.
~ Neal Stephenson
My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
~ Quincy Jones
Would it help if I told you I am a little rusty when it comes to having a relationship?" "A little? They can hear your hinges squeaking all the way on Mars," she said irreverently.
~ Jacquelyn Frank
Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all the things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot, Snot-green, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane, But he adds: in bodies. The he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured.
~ James Joyce
If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.
~ Frank Stallone
She was a thin woman in a mustard-yellow suit, with a yellowish complexion, short-cropped rusty red hair, and a stiff posture. She reminded Reynie of a giant walking pencil.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
In an age of aerial surveillance and high-security technology, it was a blacksmith's barrier of antiquated ironmongery: old rusty ramparts running for miles, a visible example of national paranoia.
~ Paul Theroux
As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty.
~ Eminem
I compare tradition to a water main: the church suffers from the syndrome of rusty piping. If we could look into our subterranean water systems we would never drink water again. And yet they bring us clean water, even when they are rusty.
~ David Steindl-Rast
Within her, the rusty gates to her heart groaned as they slowly, slowly began to open.
~ Zoe Archer
Another moment or two of suffocated silence, and Hunt swallowed hard before speaking in a rusty-sounding voice. "I probably shouldn't ask. But what the hell are you doing?
~ Lisa Kleypas
If you don't exercise a talent, you get rusty
~ Jack Campbell
As a bridesmaid, on the morning of the wedding you will be unfolding the rusty metal legs of a banquet table and in the distance you will see a useless groomsman playing Frisbee with a dog. To rub salt in the wound, he might lightly ask, "Is there anything I can do to help?" knowing full well no self-respecting bridesmaid will task him with any job because he will do it too slowly.
~ Mindy Kaling
Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.
~ Paul Fussell