Closeness Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.

— Sylvia Plath

The floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at a white…

— Susanna Kaysen

And Summers and Winters scattered like splinters And four or five years slipped away

— Jimmy Buffet

We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what…

— Toni Collette

If anything, a floating floor will actually allow for more expansion, contraction and moving around, and be more resilient than a solid hardwood that…

— Bryan Baeumler

[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time.

— Lois Gould

“When people move out of a house, it begins to die. The foundation seems to crumble faster, the paint peels quicker, and the wood…

— Cicada Summer Alex

A plague of snow, fluffy and dry before it hardens and grips the trees, the walls, and the cars parked haphazardly everywhere. When I…

— Henri Cole

Soon the cold would force them inside, so they clutched at lost summer.

— Annette Curtis Klause

My mother scrubbed other people's floors for a living, and I remember vividly her worrying about being down to the last half crown for…

— David Starkey

I don't like bare floors.

— Robert Denning