Floor Quotes

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Charlotte Eriksson
“Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.”
Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

Sylvia Plath
“I don't know how long I kept at it...
I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still.
It didn't seem to be summer any more”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of bed, puts on her deep-sea divers’ boots, and stomps across my ceiling to megaphone the kids awake. The kids drop bags of cannonballs onto the floor, then, apparently dragging several sledgehammers each, stampede into the kitchen. They grab their chunks of baguette and go and sit in front of the TV, which is always showing a cartoon about people who do nothing but scream at each other and explode. Every minute, one of the kids cartwheels (while bouncing cannonballs) back into the kitchen for seconds, then returns (bringing with it a family of excitable kangaroos) to the TV. Meanwhile the toilet is flushed, on average, fifty times per drop of urine expelled. Finally, there is a ten-minute period of intensive yelling, and at 8:15 on the dot they all howl and crash their way out of the apartment to school.” (p.137)”
Stephen Clarke, A Year in the Merde

Karen Quan
“I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters.”
Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading

Israelmore Ayivor
“Your downfall is a preparation for your up-rise. If you don’t know this secret, you will remain on the floor, blaming your legs instead of your head!”
Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

Jay Rayner
“Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the fetid detail of the moment to spot where it is leading us. But not this time. I was experiencing one of my dad’s deafening moments. If my life could be understood as a meal of many courses (and let’s be honest, much of it actually was), then I had finished the starters and I was limbering up for the main event. So far, of course, I had made a stinking mess of it. I had spilled the wine. I had dropped my cutlery on the floor and sprayed the fine white linen with sauce. I had even spat out some of my food because I didn’t like the taste of it.

“But it doesn’t matter because, look, here come the waiters. They are scraping away the debris with their little horn and steel blades, pulled with studied grace from the hidden pockets of their white aprons. They are laying new tablecloths, arranging new cutlery, placing before me great domed wine glasses, newly polished to a sparkle. There are more dishes to come, more flavors to try, and this time I will not spill or spit or drop or splash. I will not push the plate away from me, the food only half eaten. I am ready for everything they are preparing to serve me. Be in no doubt; it will all be fine.” (pp.115-6)”
Jay Rayner, Eating Crow: A Novel of Apology

Munia Khan
“The center of my sins
stuck behind a blocked door,
circled by hollow deeds
spread on my lifetime’s floor”
Munia Khan

Christophe Galfard
“The air around you is filled with floating atoms, sliding down the Earth's spacetime curve. Atoms first assembled in the cores of long-dead stars. Atoms within you, everywhere, disintegrating in radioactive decays. Beneath your feet, the floor - whose electrons refuse to let yours pass, thus making you able to stand and walk and run. Earth, your planet, a lump of matter made out of the three quantum fields known to mankind, held together by gravity, the so-called fourth force (even though it isn't a force), floating within and through spacetime.”
Christophe Galfard, The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond

Robert Thier
“Bad floor! Bad! Just because drunk people always end up drooling on you, that’s no reason to be vindictive. How could you want to hurt those cute little piggies? Can’t you see how well they dance?’

‘Mr Linton, I think I’d better get you upstairs to your room.’

‘No! I need to have a serious talk with this floor.’

‘There’s plenty of floor upstairs, Mr Linton.’

Really? Damn! This was a conspiracy.”
Robert Thier, Hunting for Silence

Lana M. H. Wilder
“It's only out of reach when you choose to keep your feet flat on the floor.”
Lana M.H. Wilder

Israelmore Ayivor
“Don't agree and believe that success comes free... Gold on the floor is a lie! You must dig deep and then you will reap big!”
Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

Israelmore Ayivor
“The ladder of leadership can only stand firm on the grounds of integrity. Any other ground makes it unstable till it falls.”
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

Israelmore Ayivor
“Inflate yourself with a genuine passion always. This makes it possible for you to bounce back when you fall. The football is loaded with air and no sooner does it hit the floor than it bounces back again!”
Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Christina Engela
“Swallowing, he entered the second code. Then there was a sound like a marble dropping on the floor - bouncing slowly, gradually getting faster as it dropped lower and lower… The thing was toying with him! Where was it? He strained his hearing, but all was again silent. He wanted to shout and scream obscenities at it, but he fought the impulse. It might not really know his location after all - and that would've led it right to him. It must be coming for him! It must be by the door by now, looking for a way in. Time was running out. He hastily keyed in the third and last code.
Death the destroyer never is late!”
Christina Engela, Demonspawn

“Not everything that is on the floor has been trowed away.”
Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela

Steven Magee
“Pets enrich our lives...and poop on our floors!”
Steven Magee

Jarod Kintz
“I like mini-golf. For me, it’s like long-billiards, where the green has contours, and the table is the floor. This putt-putt course is dilapidated, but that just makes it more challenging.”
Jarod Kintz, The Lewis and Clark of The Ozarks

Enock Maregesi
“Murphy alichanganyikiwa. Hakujua nini kilitokea na kwa nini. Ila, ghafla, alipotupa macho kushoto aliona kitu. Joka kubwa lilitambaa, ingawa kwa shida, kwa sababu ya sakafu, na kumfuata kummaliza. Murphy alijua joka hata angefanya vipi, hakuwa na uwezo wa kujikinga. Alipotaka kupiga kelele ili walinzi wa nje waje, Murphy alishindwa. Nyuma ya joka – katika mkia – kuna kitu kiling’aa, kikamshangaza! Muujiza ulimtokea Murphy lakini kitu kikamwambia aite walinzi wa nje ili waje wamuue yule nyoka. Lakini kabla hajapiga kelele, alisikia sauti; si ya mwanamume. Ya mwanamke!”
Enock Maregesi, Kolonia Santita

Israelmore Ayivor
“The worst to ever happen to a person who aims at the sky is to fall on the tallest mountain; the best that can happen to a person who aims at the ceiling of his room is to fall on the carpet of his floor!”
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

Catherynne M. Valente
“I am here to tell you
We are all of us just as mighty as planets—and you too,
We'll let you in, we've got stalwart to spare—
But you might have to sleep on the floor.”
Catherynne M. Valente, The Bread We Eat in Dreams

Israelmore Ayivor
“The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts.”
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

Israelmore Ayivor
“To become a better you, admit that you were not born for the floor. Refuse to embrace mediocrity anytime anywhere.”
Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

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Smack Amusements

“The shortest solution of every problem is to minimize the distance between your forehead and the floor.”
M.Rehan Behleem

Steven Magee
“At Mauna Kea Observatories, we would wear cold weather clothing as the telescopes were often below freezing and there would be ice on the floor.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“Robotic vacuums can clean better than conventional vacuums.”
Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The bottom line is most often a false floor.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Steven Magee
“Once an abductor has you alone inside of an elevator, they can take you to any floor they want to, including the private service floors that may have no witnesses in them.”
Steven Magee

Gordon Korman
“Well, maybe you can keep it. But you definitely have to put in a catalytic converter.”

“It’s on my list,” I assure her. “Right after a new floor for the back seat, just in case I ever have passengers.”

Parker peers into the back. “Whoa, is that the ground?”

“Air-conditioning,” I supply, tight-lipped. “Old-school.”
Gordon Korman, The Unteachables

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