Floor Quotes

1364 Floor quotes by 1023 unique authors

This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky… — Rick Bragg
What is technology?" Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. "It's another god. — Nora Roberts
Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the… — Ian Rankin
Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to… — Margaret Atwood
I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out – my… — Keith Donohue
I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words… — Jonathan Safran Foer
A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to… — Elizabeth Marie Pope
Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in… — Jonathan Kozol
pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the… — Charles Bukowski
I've got a hangover." "No, you hit your head on the floor." "I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie. — Diana Wynne Jones
We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was… — Curtis Sittenfeld
I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty… — Charles Bukowski
One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces. — Ellen Hopkins
...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't… — Mark Z. Danielewski
She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how… — Anne Stuart
I watched the early morning light pass over and through the windows of colored glass, leaving streaks of red and green and yellow on the… — Karen Cushman
Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of… — Chinua Achebe
...and again she wished for Sherwood, and the dappled roof of leaves that never weighed upon her. She pulled her scarf closer around her and… — Robin McKinley
Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. — Stephen Chbosky
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than… — Franz Kafka
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if… — Pablo Picasso
And then he left, and came back, and our lives fell apart, like a well-loved book that you’d read and read again, until one night… — Jennifer Weiner
And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera… — Curtis Sittenfeld
Christy: "My grandma made this. I've had it since elementary school." Todd: "I never knew that." Christy: "I never knew you left your towel on… — Robin Jones Gunn
There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon… — Mark Twain

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