Top 194 Floors Quotes & Sayings

Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for years.

Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.

I'll sweep the floors. I've picked up napkins in the men's room. I'm not above anything.

It is no accident that stock exchange floors - in addition to bedroom floors - bring out the noisy blood, the flushed cheek, and the passionate cries of men. Most men are making love when they make 'magical' amounts of money.

The combination of popcorn, soda, and melted chocolate which covers the floors of movie theaters.

I used to sleep on floors and face racial abuse.

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.

I used to play snooker in millionaires' mansions with marble floors and eat at the best places, but that's all over now.

I was sleeping on editing room floors for $300 a week.

Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.

For most of Wall Street's history, stock trading was fairly straightforward: buyers and sellers gathered on exchange floors and dickered until they struck a deal.

Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.

I started at Nottingham Forest cleaning toilets and scrubbing the shower floors.

Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?

A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.

The way they heat their homes in Korea is to put bricks under the floors, so the heat actually radiates from underneath the floor.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

I slept in closets and on floors for a long time.

I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.

I don't like bare floors.

In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

I had a nightmare that I was mopping floors and that this Freddie Gibbs thing was all a dream.

A jump from the sixth floor is definitely more harmful than taking heroin, yet we don't forbid building sixth floors.

I don't care if I'm starting or sweeping the floors. You hear me? I want to win.

The thing about movies is that till it goes on floors, it's just preparations for the film.

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

People shared everything: information, equipment, their floors, whatever. There was strength in unity.

Wall Street trading floors have long been seen as bastions of testosterone that rewarded, literally, those with sharp elbows who could throw a punch.

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.

My little brother Paul. He owns his own floor sanding business called Silly P Hardwood Floors and hes really good.

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.

All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars.

Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

When you are cleaning, sweeping, swabbing floors and running around for the littlest of things on a shoot for an ad or a documentary, you realize how tough life is behind the camera.

As a society, we have this perception that women are emotional. The research, however, tells us that, on trading floors, that poor risk rises and falls with testosterone levels, and these trading floors are 85 percent, 90 percent male, and these gentlemen tend, under periods of stress, to show off for each other. That's dangerous.

Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men, carried to the summit of the edifice, draw and put up the higher floors, the ordinary artists scattered in the lower floors, or hidden in the obscurity of the foundations, must only seek to improve what cleverer hands have created.

I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A more serious problem is the limited capacity of the human mind to grasp the relative magnitudes of large numbers. Counting at the rate of one number per second...to count to a trillion takes 32,000 years, which is as much time as has elapsed since people first drew on cave walls.

A nice quick workout is the stairs; it takes me five minutes to do 24 floors.

I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

There are three floors beneath the garage? Why on earth?" -Mac

My momma didn't clean up floors so I could be a thug... so I could wear my pants down.

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

I put hardwood floors on top of wall-to-wall carpet.

Krishna Raj is being made into 17-18 floors, and all the floors will be with Rishi's family; it's not for sale.

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.

When I first went to work in the West Wing, the most daunting thing was how small this place was... You walk in: it's three floors, and there's a few offices on each floor, and that's it.

I couldn't come back to gymnastics because the floors were too dusty for my health.

I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.