Floors Quotes: top 77 famous quotes about Floors

Floors Quotes & Sayings

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Dance floors would bleed from the knife of her dress — Dionne Brand

It's more like she left some of herself behing in the walls and the floors and the books, like there's something she wants to tell me. — Marie Bostwick

Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors. — Barry Ritholtz

A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook. — Jane Hirshfield

You may be the only avian I've ever met who can look happier scrubbing floors than surrounded by luxury. — Kim Dare

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable. — Ben Okri

I hear them, the fallen priest and the lady. Their footsteps sound like the soft hush of rain over the stone floors. — Rene Denfeld

Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. — Anne Lamott

Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly. — Desi Arnaz

Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over
them for years. — Mae West

A jump from the sixth floor is definitely more harmful than taking heroin, yet we don't forbid building sixth floors. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency. — Richard M. Nixon

Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything. — Gloria Steinem

My room was only eleven floors above Rosie's, so I walked up the stairs. — Graeme Simsion

The polished oak floors reflected the light of the overhead crystal chandelier and gleaned under the plush deep red Persian rug. — Robin R. Murphy

I put hardwood floors on top of wall-to-wall carpet. — Steven Wright

When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week. — Jill Lepore

A comfortable quiet falls over us. Really comfortable, like we've lain on filthy floors corpselike together for several lifetimes now. — Jandy Nelson

My little brother Paul. He owns his own floor sanding business called Silly P Hardwood Floors and hes really good. — Amy Sedaris

You could bury people one hundred floors down, and a whole dead world could be underneath the living one. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are. — Yanni

Her slippers went fitik, fitik, sliss, fitik, on the floors. They were soft sounds, like the sounds mouths make when they open and close. — M T Anderson

A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls — Hermann Hesse

I used to cover my windows in heavy curtains, never drawn. Now I danced in the sunlight on my hardwood floors. — Kimberly Novosel

I knew Rome was burning, but I had just enough water to scrub the floors, so I did what I could. — Barbara Kingsolver

The combination of popcorn, soda, and melted chocolate which covers the floors of movie theaters. — Rich Hall

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring. — Sandra Bullock

I'll sweep the floors. I've picked up napkins in the men's room. I'm not above anything. — David Duffield

I don't like bare floors. — Robert Denning

People shared everything: information, equipment, their floors, whatever. There was strength in unity. — Michael Azerrad

I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym. — Joanna Lumley

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in. — Alain Robert

Morning sun fills the house, creamy as lemon chiffon, lighting the insides of cupboards and empty closets and clean, bare floors. — Celeste Ng

Even floors have a plan. — Catherine Sasanov

On production floors and in corporate offices, sociological verbiage has replaced a basic understanding of human behavior. — W. Edwards Deming

The heels of military boots, striking marble floors, made a sound like thrown stones. — Gregory Maguire

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else. — Robert Herjavec

I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends ... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night. — Oscar Levant

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. — Anthony Bourdain

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bruno. 'In Berlin we had a big house with five floors if you counted the — John Boyne

Her rapid footsteps shook her own floors, and she routed lassitude and indifference wherever she came. — Willa Cather

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. — Bette Midler

The floors were like marble chessboards, and the ceilings were like cakes. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Women and men are lost in the same labyrinth .. on different floors. — Bogdan Vaida

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. — Martin H. Fischer

afterlife, the space between earth and not-earth, world and not-world, highly polished floors and glass-roof cathedral echoes and the whole anonymous — Donna Tartt

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that. — Trent Reznor

I swear dust wouldn't have the nerve to land on their floors or counters. — Simone Elkeles

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail. — Margaret Halsey

There's an extra storey between the second and third floors of the Cloisters. (Penny calls it "bonus content.") — Rainbow Rowell

The way the floors of the library became progressively less social as you worked your way up. The first floor was a meat market. The top was monkish. — Sloane Crosley

Could you help Miss Everhart find her way out of my office? And could you please have the janitor check my floors for fucking superglue? *** — Whitney Gracia Williams

A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors. — Terry Tempest Williams

The floors were polished mahogany, clear as glass, — C.M. Hayden

The women kept washing floors. It seemed to be what they did in difficult times. Unvarying things, she saw, must have a deeper value than we know. — Don DeLillo

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school. — John Caudwell

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood. — Norman Mailer

There are three floors beneath the garage? Why on earth?
-Mac — Karen Marie Moning

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. — T. S. Eliot

I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere/Hit the kitchen lights, now it's marble floors everywhere. — Young Jeezy

Oh my, Bryce Elliot Williams! Change back right this instance! You're going to ruin the floors!"
-Amy — Micalea Smeltzer

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables. — John Boehner

Even today our knowledge of the ocean floors remains remarkably low resolution. — Bill Bryson

And Lord knows there are more than enough rooms to love someone properly, even if they don't all have floors or ceilings. — Damon Suede

Draw a floor plan of the house you lived in as a child, including all the floors. — Jean J. Jenson

To shoes and skirts may they end up on our floors. — Luke Barnes

You smell like the floor of a bar."
"Hey. I resent that. I have lots of fond memories of bar floors. — Nichole Chase

All the little gods of irony must whoop and weep and roll on the floors of Olympus when they tune in on the night thoughts of a truly fatuous male. — John D. MacDonald

The way they heat their homes in Korea is to put bricks under the floors, so the heat actually radiates from underneath the floor. — Rick Smolan

Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world? — Jim Bakker

We just stood there, facing each other, but nine floors apart. — Jonathan Safran Foer

in the car. For seven floors, he's all mine. I dare — Magda Alexander

But what they had achieved apart on the dance floors of the world was nothing compared to what they achieved together. — Siri Mitchell

I lay so still in the gloom I could hear the house breathe, and the boards of the floors whispered, conniving a way to keep me here forever. — V.C. Andrews

A nice quick workout is the stairs; it takes me five minutes to do 24 floors. — Amy Jo Martin