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I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.

James Gould Cozzens

There was no doubt they were racing; all three were leaving rubber on the road even though I was right behind them.

Matt Sheppard

They're those big, huge rubber tires and we have tons of them.

Savannah Cowley

He's back where he belongs. He spent some time on the couch with the psychiatrist and now he is out of the rubber room. He has all the ability in the world. But he thrives at home, he has been much better since we got him home from The Meadowlands. He really did not like the heat.

Bob Mcintosh

That's where the rubber meets the road. You get sharper when you have to play for someone else, not just for yourself.

Jorma Kaukonen

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

Even the big bosses at the rubber companies would check with Jack Knight.

George Knepper

Sri Lanka has the type of economy where tea and rubber will give 4-5 percent growth. But if you want substantial growth, Wickremesinghe seems to have a clear plan on what to do.

Namal Kamalgoda

Anyone who's interested can go there. It's open to everyone, for as long as they meet the requirements. All they need to bring are their rubber shoes!

Ryan Cayabyab

A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.

Christy Mathewson

If I had a rubber band, I would have yanked it back.

Fred Brown

She explored creativity in a lot of ways with the children. She wanted to bring out their innate creativity, not a rubber stamp.

Logan Payne

Rohan is a great player but he needs to have more confidence and that will come as the time passes by but as of now we are just concentrating for the doubles rubber and hope to perform well there.

Leander Paes

Rubber-stamping these mergers is an embarrassing milestone in this nation because it puts an end to any real hope of head-to-head telephone competition.

Gene Kimmelman

We make sure all of our people have safety stuff on like rubber gloves in case we run into something that's not supposed to be there.

William Fannin

I do not intend to allow the Senate to rubber-stamp the president's plan to reward the Chinese Communists.

Jesse Helms

If it is not handled properly, it can be contaminated. Let's say a police officer sweats on a piece of an evidence; (it is) contaminated. You have to use rubber gloves, you cannot keep it in high temperatures, it has to be cool and dry.

Chris Plourd

You know, movies are often made by tying up the hamburger rights and rubber-doll rights before the script is even approved.

Ali Macgraw

We didn't expect Congress to rubber stamp what we had negotiated. But we did think that we were there in good faith.

Steve Parrish

He explains. There was a lot of rubber on the track from the IRL practice and it began to sprinkle just as I went out. However, I knew we had a great Dodge and figured if we could qualify in the top 10, we would be good to go.

Scott Lynch

Prior to the chair, (detention officers) would have to put on rubber gloves and go into (the inmates') bodies.

John Turner

We don't recommend just everybody. We don't want to be a rubber stamp.

Mike Hammond

I'm anticipating it will be ratified. But I don't think I'd call this a rubber-stamp process because there is a lot of frustration and people are angry that they're in the situation that they're in.

Peter Kennedy

Our people have been transformed from rice and slash-and-burn farmers into workers and owners of the family rubber plantation.

Hun Sen

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

Alan K. Simpson

There's a strong correlation between urbanization and demand for raw materials. With new roads, hospitals, airports, schools and housing comes rising demand for lumber, cement, steel, copper, rubber, glass and a host of other basic materials.

Joseph Quinlan

That's fantastic. We looked at rubber bark before, but we couldn't afford it. I'll take that in a heart beat. Anytime I can get anything from the state, I'll take it.

Tom Richmond

I had been looking around for rubber the whole time.

Danny Lasoski

If you think of the Earth as a rubber ball, it is still kind of squished, ... As this 'rubber ball' bounces back, the Earth becomes less flat, less oblate.

Chris Cox

It enables you to create balance and direction over the rubber. It freed him to where all his energy was going to home plate. His command today was outstanding. He just nailed a spot over and over and over again.

Mike Butcher

It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ... In reality, the most troubling provisions in the law make judges little more than rubber stamps in Justice Department investigations.

Anthony D. Romero

That's what the Guard is all about, ... We're there for communities. Å  Helping inside our borders is really when the rubber hits the road. For some of these soldiers, it is the whole reason they may have signed up for the National Guard.

David Harrell

I made molds for the people out of RTV rubber and I poured them with lead, tin and zinc.

Paul Krumanacker

We've already shot him twice with the rubber bullet today, once when he was at Powerhouse 2 getting very close to the entrance and then he disappeared and he showed up here close to this entrance and we shot him again.

Robert Stansell

I would recommend if you come to Ocean Grove and you're not from around here, don't wear rubber pants, a pink shirt and a blue jacket. Leave that for Asbury Park.

Peter Noone

For this play we've been very lucky. We've received a lot of help and materials from the Flat Rock Playhouse. When they performed this they just came up with this amazing cast of animals made from foam and rubber. These costumes will take your breath away and we're very grateful to have them.

Bo Thorp

They want us to move fast -- 'come on here,' in essence, 'rubber stamp what we've done.' That's not our job. We have an independent role and responsibility.

Gil Garcetti

The smell of burning rubber is always great in the air.

Rusty Smith

He's a rubber stamp for the national Republican agenda. That's going to be the fundamental choice in this campaign: a person who's going to align themselves with President Bush or a man or woman who's going to represent Marylanders.

Derek Walker

We are preparing for the best Roy Jones ever. [For rubber matches] you have to put in your mind that this guy is laying it all on the line. They know this is it and they try to dig deeper.

Buddy Mcgirt

I think Charlie is exhibit one in the case against a rubber stamp Congress that is incompetent in solving the problems of our country.

Paul Hodes

He's got a little kitty sixth sense. He can hear a small rubber ball roll on the floor and bat it back to us. He can hop up on benches and chairs.

Connie Maute

I'm sure we'll put the rubber to the road when possible. If the opportunity presents itself, that side-to-side feel of the car moving – there's nothing that can completely replace that.

Mike Joyner

The mix will stick to the rubber tires on the pneumatic rollers.

Dale Decker

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Rob Neyland

It's tough. I feel worse for my family and my crew than I do for myself. It was driver error on that one. I've got to keep it out of the garbage. There is an edge out there (outside the second groove of racing), and I drifted up after passing the lap car. You get two tires in there (loose rubber, or marbles as it's called), then four tires in the garbage and there is nothing you can do.

Dan Steele

It was the rubber match between Abby and Cuyler. Cuyler gave Ally all she wanted.

Allen Hornthal

I think the citizens of this city certainly deserve better than to have the city commission rubber stamp (it).

Ann Rogers

His testimony showed that they [NYSE management and Goldman Sachs] did this behind their backs, ... He was asked to rubber-stamp a deal.

William Higgins

The legislature is not a rubber-stamp organization, ... We are an independent branch of government.

Gloria Romero

Today, I really struggled staying back on the rubber and getting the ball down. But when I did, you know, I was able to do that in key situations and make key pitches, so I've just got to be more consistent with that.

Adam Wainwright

There are smart ways to solve some of our problems so there's more money on the ground where the rubber meets the road.

Steve Westly

They're acting a lot on what people might think about Bill Campbell, but when the rubber meets the road, I don't know what kind of case they've got.

Bruce Harvey

You don't have to water or cut rubber.

Jim Rew

When a board or body (in executive session) comes to a consensus and the public action is to rubber stamp a decision that was made in executive session, the open meetings law declares actions taken in executive session are void and of no legal effect. No decision can be made in closed session.

Chris Beall

Where the rubber is really going to hit the road is Jan. 2 in the local pharmacies.

Stan Rosenstein

This is sort of a rubber match for me and Tracy.

Cheryl Johnson

I got mixed reactions. Not all the kids liked it. It was hot. It reflects the sun. Some of them didn't like the rubber and some had trouble with slippage. In general, everybody liked it.

Matt Bryson

Is not a rubber stamp for whatever Congress does.

Lisa Stone

She hasn't had a surgery; we haven't changed the size of the ball; we haven't decreased the distance from the plate to the rubber. It's just been about faith and believing in what she could do.

Tiffany Tootle

A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

Charles Krauthammer

If the county does continue these moratoriums, they are subject to litigation if they don't let people build on their land. Coming up with a plan is one thing. But the rubber only hits the road when they get the funding, and they have no funding.

Bob Wille

We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.

Peter De Vries

Maryland horsemen and breeders to pay for all of Magna's (business) failures, not only in Maryland but everywhere else. And they have been emboldened to do it here because they believe they have a compliant racing commission that will rubber stamp their plans.

Alan Foreman

Some smallholders felt that it was not worth their effort to tap the rubber trees in the past. The current remunerative prices have brought back interest (among) the smallholders.

Kamarul Baharain

The air molecules pass right through the rubber molecules, even without a puncture. People never keep the tire pressure up.

Donald Bachman

Our teams have played on dozens of fields and the all-rubber surface is by far preferred by our coaches and players, anyway. The fact that all-rubber is also safer is an added bonus.

Andy Talley

We're not going to be a rubber stamp for what someone in Austin says we should be.

Mike Davidson

Justin burned rubber to it.

Carl Cramer

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

It is not being a rubber stamp, ... but clearly, the bias here is to support the Pentagon recommendations.

San Antonio

Flat, rubber soles, soft materials, open toe. We did a wedge shoe -- not too high, four centimeters, and it comes in an open toe or mule or a closed pump. It's very comfortable and looks a bit like a nurse's shoe.

Laura Moltedo

This is where the rubber hits the road. Generally it's a 2-8 week training program these folks go through, but if you ask them and say, 'Who do you work for?' they'd say 'I work for AT&T.' They wouldn't say Precision Response. We go out of our way to lose that identity.

David Epstein

It is that smell of burning flesh and rubber that I just love. You can just tell rugby is being played.

Jeff Powell

They definitely had sex appeal and make a good story, but they didn't make any money. When the rubber hits the road, if you're not delivering it is hard to go out and get investors.

John Mccamant

As long as natural rubber prices do not outstrip synthetic rubber prices by a large margin, substitution with synthetic rubber by tire manufacturers isn't expected to be very significant.

Kamarul Baharain

(Shoes are) not that high. The shoes are in a matte metal nylon, old gold mesh with black rubber heels, like little squares or olives.

Karl Lagerfeld

The most challenging scene for me was the spider scene, because I don't like spiders in real life. Even rubber ones I get really scared of.

Rupert Grint

We are interested in ferries, in BART, in rail, and in bus travel ? we're interested in more options. [However] ... where the rubber meets the road, you can't have it all, so we're forced to make choices.

Randy Rentschler

We don?t build ?me? guys, we build ?we? guys. I got down and dirty with Rashad as much as coach Calhoun has. If he messed up, I told him so. I sat him on the bench. A lot of kids take that and it breaks them. Rashad is very much a strong rubber band.

Andrew Taylor

[Still, it was satisfying to see them humbled.] They're like dirigibles, ... They look huge floating over us with their messages. Then they get punctured, and they're flabby rubber.

Malachy Mccourt

It didn't have anyone's prints on it, ... because the rubber grip wasn't conducive to prints. We had an expert from the crime lab testifying about why there were no prints.

John Schmidt

Our city has become a rubber stamp for development, ... We bend over backwards to welcome developers. I think if we did have someone on the City Council who is somewhat of an environmental activist, that would be a beautiful thing.

Kevin King

The actual hunt is a long way off. This is not a rubber-stamp process.

Brian Gorman

Companies will not receive a rubber stamp certification; this is an in-depth program that requires an exhaustive and thorough audit of one's processes.

John Kania

Sure, we could drive stock prices up for one quarter or two quarters, but that's not the best thing for the company or its shareholders. The pain of sustainability is far better than the agony of the rubber band breaking.

Jim Jenness

We advise the offender in advance that unless they otherwise hear from us, at 12:01am, they can cut the bracelet off - it's just a rubber band. Then all monitoring will cease.

Chris Stanton

Safe sex - with a condom, rubber gloves and a wet suit is fine as long as you don't fall in love.

Kerry Thornley

Greg Walden is a rubber stamp for the Bush administration. I'm running because he isn't looking after the best interests of the people in this district.

Scott Silver

You want to wear rubber gloves when you skin these suckers.

Bill Porter

I hit those corners very good, but for the King to go by me, there had to be rubber there. I went down there and felt it and I got to him and I backed off because I didn't want to show him.

Danny Lasoski

The need is only becoming more intense for these high-caliber, multinational companies to be involved, yet the market conditions are becoming increasingly hostile to that, so somewhere the rubber has got to hit the road.

Karen Harbert

These people were on a train to go to the illegal security march in Johannesburg, but they started harassing and intimidating other passengers so police fired rubber bullets at them.

Eugene Opperman

I begged them to please make me something that wouldn't ride up my, well, you know. And they all told me that they used all the rubber for the tanks.

Esther Williams

You can have a policy, but there can be a culture against using it. The culture is where the rubber meets the road. It's actually what happens to people, regardless of what the policies are.

Ellen Galinsky