"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless,……" — Ben Okri

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• I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working… — John Boehner
• My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables. — John Boehner
• I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do… — Sandra Bullock
• Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is… — Joanna Lumley
• In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick;… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have… — John Irving
• Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no… — Edwin Markham
• Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still… — Norman Mailer
• To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside… — Ernest Hemingway
• And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless… — Lewis Carroll
• People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child… — Heather Armstrong

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