Floors Quotes

"I broke my back. I fell out of a window... some friends had a roof terrace on the landing before their apartment, and I fell off the drain pipe. It gave way, actually, and I fell three floors. I was told I might not walk again. So, for about four days,I was contemplating that as a serious part of reality. Then they operated, and I walked out of the hospital in about twelve days."

"I drove a truck for a while for a meat packing plant. I shoveled manure at the Clarmont Riding Academy in New York. Mopped floors for a while. I uploaded railroad cars and trailers at a warehouse. I wasn`t really qualified for anything else." - On his menial jobs before acting.

"If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren`t that successful. That`s something I learned sweeping floors at this recording studio called the Power Station. Mediocre stars were the biggest pricks, and the big stars were the ones who came in and said, "How`re those demos going?" - Keep pushing." (success and life)

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

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.

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

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.

He was a pretty cute kid, when it came to convincing a girl that what she really wanted was to stay home and to scrub floors. He didn`t know that he was a male chauvinist pig, but he was! (On her marriage to Bing Crosby)

I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had.

My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it`s not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables, for that matter.

(about her last day on the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) set:) "It was that sense that everything is coming to an end, like high school when you`re about to graduate -- you really start taking notice of everyone, and noticing your surroundings. Especially when they start destroying sets that are no longer in use. Like, `Oh my God, that used to be Xander`s apartment, now it`s just floors and a wall!` The last day, I really didn`t think I was gonna cry at all. But as soon as they said: `That`s a show wrap for Emma Caulfield!`, I cried. I cried once, and that was it. I woke up the next morning like, `OK, what`s next?`" (May 21, 2003)

All the seats, all the couches, full of sleeping bodies '“ even the floors.

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.

We have had two floods. There was water under the tile on the outside terrace, and it ruined all the interior floors. Then the upstairs neighbor had a leak, which came into the bedroom.

(And there`s no faux wood—�anywhere. Instead, Sarillo builds his restaurants with oak floors and hand-hewn pine, spruce and Douglas fir beams from 100-year-old Midwestern barns.) All the way down to the nails, it`s a real barn, ... you feel like it`s real stuff.

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends` floors, was happy, was miserable.

In the interest rate area, traders have for a long time used a version of what is known as Black`s model for European bond options; another version of the same model for caps and floors; and yet another version of the same model for European swap options.

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

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 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.

HOTELS The Passion of Pomeranc Hotelier Jason Pomeranc takes some time to chat with the Observer this week and addresses the issue that always seems to be staring him in the face, namely the delays that have pushed back the opening of his new Thompson LES on several occasions now (not to mention made Pomeranc something of a running joke in the industry). But Pomeranc has good news! Three of the 22 floors will open this week, although if you`d like to use the pool or sample the restaurant on the second floor, you`ll have to wait until October 15th when it will probably be too cold to swim anyway. "There are always unforeseen circumstances that cause delays in scheduling," Pomeranc tells Chris Schott. (Not addressed: The rumor that Pomeranc spends more time jetting around the world with his hottie publicist girlfriend Ali Wise, above, than he does at the office.) But if you think the delays and bad press may have humbled Jason just a little bit, well, don`t get ahead of yourself. You`re going to be thanking him pretty soon for making the Lower East Side, don`t you know? "Usually, that process culminates with a luxury project—like what I believe the Thompson Lower East Side will be—where it integrates the vibe and the flow of the neighborhood but introduces a new audience as well. "I view a project as successful, like when we opened 60 Thompson, when it inherently became identified with the neighborhood. It became synonymous with Soho. I hope that the Thompson Lower East Side will do the same." Well, just as soon as the hotel actually opens and Jason and Ali get back from St. Tropez or Porto Cervo or wherever they are this week. Fashionably Late (Observer)