Floors Quotations

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.

I've been collecting articles on extremophile bacteria for at least the last ten years. I find them fascinating, whether they live in boiling pools at Yellowstone, around thermal vents at the floors of the oceans, or on Mars, where NASA has been searching for them as the first evidence of life beyond Earth.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans back into the atmosphere. Without this slow speed carbon cycle, Earth's temperatures would cool dozens of degrees below your comfort zone.

I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out.

Wood floors give it a warmth that works well with the openness and transparency of the units, the way in which the wood extends out to the balcony. It gives it a continuity of surface, and people can then put down carpet or rugs or whatever they want.

Wood floors are a good value and you usually recoup what you put into it.

We want to show people what search-and-recovery teams go through. The windows are the floors, and the floors are the walls. Their world is literally turned upside down.

There are whole floors of people in studios that worry about such things, as though there is power that can be wielded over such matters,

Many stores have damaged inventory. If they had merchandise on the floors or in boxes and it got waterlogged, they won't be able to sell it.

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!

We tore everything out of here. All that was left when we started was the floors and the walls.

We've found the old Muller's marquee signs that will be put back up. A person donated a 1960 General Electric stove that we will set up. And the old floors will be used.

When they first saw us digging there, the local people just couldn't believe there was a pyramid there. It was only when the slopes and shapes of the pyramid, the floors with altars were found, that the finally believed us.

I was delighted to find wide-plank floors under the crappy linoleum.

Pink marble floors four inches thick. Thirty-six solid bronze lamps. They were very gorgeous. Just the whole house was incredible.

I woke up around 3:15 a.m. to this loud clanging and banging. I got out of bed and opened the cabin door, and there was a man in the hall saying there was a fire two floors above us and we had to get the other passengers up and get out. I went back into the room, opened the curtains, and I could see flames and cinders and things falling on our balcony.

We were looking at the space when we were designing the whole suite of galleries, and we noticed that the ceiling was so tremendously high that we could easily make two floors of it. So what we did -- instead of the original idea of mixing decorative arts and paintings from the 12th century onward -- we have more or less separated the decorative arts from the paintings.

We had to search all seven floors of the hospital and we were supposed to get 13 bodies, but we ended up with 19. When we decided to search the entire hospital is when we found the other six bodies.

The pressure from underneath was too much, and it was actually coming through the floors and the walls and all around inside the levy. There wasn't anything we could do then, so we just bailed out.

We had no food, no electricity, we moved floors in the hotel because the ground floor was flooded. Three people who were staying there passed away after they were electrocuted when they went out on the street.

We are looking at about 300 residences. They will be a congregate of housing, townhouses, garden apartments and an assisted-living facility. On the Greenland piece, we are looking at a mixed-use commercial village with retail on the first floors and office space above.

Trading floors are already going to flat-panel displays, for example. And health care services like flat panels because CRT emissions can interfere with medical instruments.

When I was born in 1959, the hospital in which I arrived had separate floors for black babies and white babies, and it was then illegal for blacks and whites to marry in many states.

There is Outside ownership, no doubt, but it's all managed locally, ... Al has been here ever since he was sweeping the floors as a kid.

We are entering into a big denim cycle and it's the most important for the back-to-school and teen sectors. The floors are loaded with denim and we expect it be a big area in focus through the end of summer.

We scraped floors for a week. I was crawling on my hands and knees for days. But looking at it now, we are just so happy with the way it turned out.

There was a feeling of too many uncivil acts on campus. This was to inform the floors and have the floors take a stance that this is not acceptable.

The roof is completely gone and there are some floors that are collapsing.

A property that is pet-friendly is usually on the ground floor, not on a busy street, and perhaps with a good fenced yard. If you are planning on buying a pet-friendly property, it is a good idea to have wood floors rather than carpeting.

As far as wheelchairs are concerned, the floors are a dream.

You're not going to talk to your vacuum cleaning robot: in fact, you may never see your vacuum cleaning robot because, ideally, you come home every day and your floors are freshly vacuumed.

They took away everything, even the foundation, and that was fine with me. The floors were buckling and there was mold all through the house. I didn't want to live in that.

A lot of people were skeptical about mixed use, ... but we've been able to separate the uses by floors so they don't overlap. There are separate elevators, too. The one on the west side is residential and the one on the east side is commercial.

There's always that one guy with the 100-watt half-stack who is maxing out his amp and being heard three floors above and below him, which doesn't make anyone happy. Not everyone is as excited as you about guitar and loud noises.

It is our intention to begin construction after the April market and anticipate a grand opening for the upper floors at the fall 2007 High Point market.

It's a fantastic building. In fact, we could fit into two floors of it.

It just floors me. It's sad. It's really sad.

It's a lot of work putting the floors down again. You have to make sure the moisture is just right because if it gets too much moisture, the floor swells. So, you have to make sure that the wood is at a certain moisture level.

Efforts to maintain cleanliness of the household in terms of dust on the floors and in bedding can help reduce these complaints. Laundering bedding regularly with hot water and soap is a good idea.

Everybody was friendly. Everybody knew each other. This building has completely changed. It's beautiful. The floors used to squeak and there was no elevator.

The biggest thing that floors me is that nobody can tell me where this rule comes from.

It's definitely going to be creative space. It will have a loft feel, with hardwood floors and high ceilings, catering to small creative firms that are being reborn downtown.

It used to be that people had stone floors because they shared living space with animals.

It works out for us because the floors are already covered and the stage is already up.

They were 25 feet wide, 30 feet long, with wooden floors and wood going up the sides about 3 feet.

Not only are retailers doing more with less, like every other large corporation, and taking advantage of six fewer days in the shopping season, but they are actually hiring less this holiday shopping season, so there's fewer people on the floors actually helping consumers out.

The investigators started complaining that the smell, the mold, the doors became unaligned, the floors were sagging, just the basic deterioration of the building had them concerned.

The inspiration and meaning behind the title 'Playing With Fire' is self explanatory. I'm excited about this album and am looking forward to continuing my promotional club tour in support of it and seeing the first-hand reaction of my fans listening to my songs for the first time. My album is sure to set the dance floors across the world on fire!

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.

If you ever saw the original building, it was absolutely gorgeous. The red and the blue were neon at night, and the interior was flawless -- marble floors and red carpets. The seats and the curtains were red, too.

In the Historic Core are some of the most magnificent buildings in L.A.. Some of the upper floors along Broadway may be converted to residential.

Cities might become biological entities, walls hung with curtains of algae that glow at night and sequester carbon, and floors made from tweaked cellular material that strengthens like bones as we walk on it.

You can't even get people to acknowledge that there's a problem. That's what floors me.

The house my brother bought there is so beautiful -- it was built by Fred and Nellie Briers and is this large, family-style house with gorgeous, hardwood floors that probably would have cost at least $150,000 if it would have been in another part of town,

The floors are clean, the conveyer belts functioning and aerobridges are back in action.

You will never have buyer's remorse with wood. You can change your furniture, window covering, or color scheme, but the wood will always be there and most important be appropriate. Look at Monticello the original wood floors there are still magnificent.

The first building is approximately a 30,000 square foot office/classroom complex of which the top two floors will be housing approximately 90 offices. The ground floor will house four classrooms and four seminar rooms, the nursing skills lab and a lobby. Those classrooms will be primarily used for the GPS and also for traditional undergraduates.

Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, / The floors are shrunken, cobwebs hang.