- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Floors Quotes
Grounded lines about the floors beneath work, home, and memory.
This collection of floors quotes ranges from thermal vents on the ocean floor to the floors people mop during a first job, showing how the same word can span science and everyday work.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald's. Since then, I've held jobs a diverse as selling used cars, selling apparel, cosmetics, and real-estate, substitute-teaching six graders, teaching undergraduate creative writing, and working as an editorial assistant for a literary magazine.
- Grandmother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square. That's about as desk-jobby as it can get. There was a lot of, 'Go two floors up and make a copy of this and then bring it to me.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living your life 40 floors up, looking out every day on ocean and skies, you see the world from a different point of view. It's like living in a very interesting fishbowl, but since no one can see up here, it's like a fishbowl with a limo tint.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
- Dining Room
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joined a gym when I was 11, agreed to seeing a dietitian aged 15, and I remember being a teenager and going to shops, only to find that as a size 16, the clothes were hidden at the back or on different floors well away from the shop windows.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the '70s and through the hospital wards of the '80s and onwards to the streets.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a nightmare that I was mopping floors and that this Freddie Gibbs thing was all a dream.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of Stockholm, and my mom was very active with directing theater. So I basically grew up at the theater on the floors of the shows, so I was really surrounded with music at a young age.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
HubSpot's offices occupy several floors of a 19th-century furniture factory that has been transformed into the cliche of what the home of a tech startup should look like: exposed beams, frosted glass, a big atrium, modern art hanging in the lobby.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to come home and work on one of my other jobs. Just to remember that the floors gotta be mopped, and that everything isn't centered around what you fought about in Washington last week.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020