Floor Quotes
1364 Floor quotes by 1023 unique authors
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Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It…
— George MacDonald
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My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the…
— Anne Fadiman
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As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place…
— Jan Karon
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A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a…
— Paulo Coelho
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A mouse slid out from under his hat and scrambled down his sleeve, across his lap, and down to the floor. Nothing,' said Fenworth, 'should…
— Donita K. Paul
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It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the way home to…
— Sloane Crosley
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The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come…
— Rick Riordan
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I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife…
— Joseph Heller
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And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps…
— Jenny Downham
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If you leave me here," the guy on the floor said, "he'll kill me tomorrow morning." Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight,"…
— Donald E. Westlake
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Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something…
— Daniel Handler
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We came to see Jace. Is he alright?" "I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?
— Cassandra Clare
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Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden…
— Joseph Heller
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I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.
— Miranda July
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When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for…
— Gregory Maguire
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If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "danger" on the floor around them. Look, it's…
— Mercedes Lackey
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Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely…
— Daniel Handler
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Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a…
— Terry Pratchett
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But I know what I like.' She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. 'It's like Tiffany's,'she said. 'Not that I give a…
— Truman Capote
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For years I wondered why dreams are so often dull when related, and this morning I find the answer, which is very simple - like…
— William S. Burroughs
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I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I…
— Margaret Atwood
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The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading his masculine shamelessness,…
— Yasunari Kawabata
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I gave my mother a matching set [of mugs] for Christmas, and she accepted them as graciously as possible, announcing that they would make the…
— David Sedaris
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Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of…
— Robert Ludlum
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