Rube Goldberg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.
-- Rube Goldberg

#Thinking #Personality #Wonder
I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.
-- Rube Goldberg

#Friday #Art #Real
Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.
-- Rube Goldberg

#Lasts #Serious #Lucky
Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.
-- Rube Goldberg

#Conservative #Republican
And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.
-- Rube Goldberg

#Book #Cartoon #Paper
And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.
-- Rube Goldberg

#Earth #Care #Weight
And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with.
-- Rube Goldberg

#Eye #Hands #Glad
And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.
-- Rube Goldberg

#College #Years #Juniors
I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.
-- Rube Goldberg

#Writing #Engineering #Graduates
I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.
-- Rube Goldberg

#Depression #Thinking #Littles
It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.
-- Rube Goldberg

#Crazy #Appreciate #Quality
No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.
-- Rube Goldberg

#Matter #Stills
When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.
-- Rube Goldberg

#Sports #Fighting #Cartoon
Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itchâ€”terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.
-- Rube Goldberg

#Believe #Mean #Thinking
Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either.
-- Rube Goldberg

#Thinking #People #Young

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