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There's never an ugly bubble.
I have no time for a vacation.
It's hard to blow an ugly bubble.
Bubble cubes are central to what I do.
Bubbles have more colors than a rainbow.
I was one of the poorest people in America.
I love to make a living from blowing bubbles.
I had no plans to become a responsible person.
I've never been jailed for a crime of violence.
The only thing bubbles care about is wet and dry.
The bubbles are thinner than wavelengths of light.
I walked the rainbow trail for a good number of years.
I receive food stamps but I have never been on welfare.
Bubbles are just a little liquid soap and a breath of air.
Bubbles are always new; you just can't find an old bubble.
If you blow enough bubbles, after a while you sort of get into it.
I needed to entertain myself at home nights... I got a jar of bubbles.
Bubbles are one of the few things in life that we are allowed to break.
At 20 years old, I was better at playing with toys than I was as a kid.
Bubbles are very simplified versions of some of the basic laws of the universe.
I use ordinary soap bubbles, the dime-store stuff, two wands and a plastic straw.
I'm just a guy entertaining people and telling the truth and teaching them science.
I was never very good at stopping crowds. I started blowing bubbles to attract people.
When I went to college, I majored in anti-war demonstrations, you know? I mean, really!
I ended up living on Crete for eight months. I picked olives and did house painting and got broke.
I was in my hippie stage. It was tough for my father. First it was the long hair, then the bubbles.
I've never blown an ugly bubble. Never. They're all beautiful. They're like jewels, transient jewels.
I think the best thing about a bubble is that it pops and is gone. That is what makes it so precious.
Bubbles are round for the same reason that planets are spherical. The universe itself is like bubbles.
When I blow the head off a glass of Guinness or eat a slice of white bread, there are so many bubbles!
I am not too interested in leaving the street people and joining the Establishment. I prefer street folks.
My initial attraction was just the beauty. The colors were so beautiful, the spheres were so nearly perfect.
I had dropped out of Memphis State University after two years because I felt the real world was too exciting.
Bubbles are weird things. They're not fragile. They're infinitely flexible. They're not what we think they are.
Bubbles only break for a few different reasons, so if I can avoid those things, I can get a lot of things to happen.
The reason bubbles are spherical is that a sphere is the smallest, most economical form possible to contain a given volume.
The mid '70s was the golden age. A lot of things were being born on the street then, and there was a lot of experimentation.
There's a brand, Mr. Bubble, that is sometimes called other things, like Mickey Mouse or other names. That's the stuff I use.
I'd do the Mount St. Helen's trick, where the smoke comes out of the top. I wouldn't even have to look at people. I'd hear that 'Ahhhh!'
On good days, I've done bubbles with as many as 38 faces - a row of pentagons, a row of hexagons, and another row of pentagons on bottom.
I didn't want to go out at night and spend my money in bars and stuff like that, so when I came home at night, I just wanted to entertain myself.
I had this memory of being with my aunt, who I loved, you know, and watching her blow some bubbles in sunlight, and my heart fluttered when I watched her.
Mathematicians are stiff abstract guys. They'll tell you they don't need the physical world. But then when I show them my bubbles they're like little children.
We thought we completely understood bubbles when we were kids. But we didn't. Bubbles are these amazing things. It's just that people aren't paying enough attention.
I enjoy the beauty of the bubble, they're fluid and yet they have these geometric shapes so they do surprising things - two spheres become a single sphere - it's what bubbles do.
I've never had much and I've never needed much. If I had only two bucks in my pocket, I knew I could spend it because I could always do another show of some kind, even on a sidewalk.
If you stare at suds, you'll go crazy. But in soap suds, you'll find bubble cubes and many other forms. I just take those things, magnify them and sometimes blow smoke inside it so you can see it better.
I worked in a factory for 10 months with the aim of going traveling in Europe. I bought a bottle of bubble stuff and spent every night playing with bubbles. After 10 months, I went to Europe and did bubble shows on the street.
First I got a yo-yo. I got good and then I got bored. Next I got one of those wooden paddles with a rubber ball at the end of an elastic band. I got good and then I got bored. Then I tried bubbles. I got good but I never got bored.
Bubbles are incredibly basic. We think of them in that way just because they're a kid's toy. But I think it's more basic than childhood, something primal - the liquid, the flow, the shapes. We were liquid at one point in our development.