“I get that Speedo on, it looks like a rubber band stretched over a head of cauliflower.”

“I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.”

Jamie Chung (1983) American actress

“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.”

Aimee Bender (1969) Novelist, short story writer

“I prefer men to cauliflowers”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

“Roger: New bands.. old bands - whatever. It's kind of weird. I guess I stay out of the loop on new bands, younger bands an who's getting signed or how many records this band is making. Persoanlly I don't care about things like that. I like melodies and lyrics and songs and energy. Isn't that what's it all about?”

Roger Manganelli (1973) American musician

“Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“"What is that? Is that Slender Man?" [gets closer] "Oh, no. I saw that thing; it looked like a giant, white box-head."”

Markiplier (1989) American YouTuber and Internet personality

“A cauliflower shows how an object can be made of many parts, each of which is like a whole, but smaller. Many plants are like that. A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth but irregularities at a smaller scale.”

Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010) Polish-born, French and American mathematician

“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”

Michael Palin (1943) British comedian, actor, writer and television presenter

“It didn’t feel, at that moment, like I was getting into something over my head. It never does, before you take the leap.”

George Alec Effinger book When Gravity Fails