Character, character, character. First, second and third. . . we were pretty rusty initially. When you have a break for a few weeks you get a bit of rust.
Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.
One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they diminish imperceptibly or the lock gets rusty; they are there all right but one cannot make use of them.
What's great about stand-up unlike athletes and other things when you get old you get old and rusty.
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.
In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something that are now there's just lots of rusty hulks of buildings and a lot of people wandering around, a lot of alcoholism and violence because people have got nothing to do and no work. Yet people were very generous.
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.
I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.
I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty.
It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle.
The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.
Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.
Perseverance. . . keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.
A Pentagon official once said the people who would actually push the button probably have never seen a person die. He said the only hope -and it's a strange thought - is if they put the button to launch the nuclear war behind a man's heart. The President, then, with a rusty knife, would have to cut out the man's heart, kill the man, to get to the button.
Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye.
If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it.
I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.