Quotes Tagged "floor"

The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.

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.

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.

It's only out of reach when you choose to keep your feet flat on the floor.

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)

I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.

The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.

Tithing is a bad ceiling but an excellent floor.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

I'm not a cerebral player. When I'm out on the floor, I try to play.

There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day!

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

Chubby Checker changed the dance floor.

I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor.

I've always danced and exercised. I can't imagine not doing it. I'll be Martha Graham in my 90s doing contractions on the floor.

Let's create jobs by bringing the Shaheen-Portman bipartisan energy efficiency bill to the floor.

If I have to filibuster on the Senate floor, I'll even read the King James Bible until the wall is funded.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

The Miami Heat floor is great, but a lot of them are not.

You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.