#rubbing

Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two. ↗

— Balthazar Getty

#doing #habit #i #know #like

The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#advertise #already #big #i #just

If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar. ↗

— Lucy Stone

#beat #dollar #drunk #earned #get

She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times! ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#carried #door #furiously #grease #had

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#between #border #chipping #come #cultures