Top 100 Flip Quotes
#1. Her heart pounded as [Cam's] lips bypassed hers and came to a stop, whispering in her ear: 'Don't let him flip you off next time.
Lauren Kate
#2. I flip ahead in the textbook. There's an interesting chapter about acid rain. Nothing about sex. We aren't scheduled to learn about that until eleventh grade.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#3. Yes, I still call them flip-flops, even though I've lived in Australia for ten years. I can't accept that thongs aren't something that get stuck up the crack in your bum.
Paige Toon
#4. For a moment, I find myself fighting the urge to glance around and make sure no one is staring, but then, his eyes come back to mine and he smiles, and good God, but that smile has my stomach doing flip-flops and my brain stuttering.
Ashley Stoyanoff
#5. I had a long list of things I preferred to do over flipping burgers. Flipping burgers and teaching people to flip burgers: my fucking dream come true.
Katie McGarry
#6. He spent more time on the road to Damascus than a Syrian camel driver. And we thought nobody could fill John Kerry's flip-flops! ... [Romney's record was] "anything but conservative until he changed all the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for President."
Mike Huckabee
#7. A foolproof plan for not getting a job - show up for your interview wearing flip flops.
Alan Davies
#8. Suppose someone tells you that he just flipped a coin 10 times and all 10 were heads? What is the probability that the next flip will be heads too? If you think 50%, then you are discounting the very high probability that the game is rigged. And this makes you a sucker.
Dmitry Orlov
#9. People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.
David E. Kelley
#11. The rabbit is one of the few animals that (de facto) enjoys screwing: after copulating it does a backward flip and drums on the ground. If it could light up a fag, it would no doubt do that too, and blow smoke rings into the sky.
Peter Zilahy
#12. The passion is my favorite part of the city [Philadelphia]. You go from 'we love you' to 'we hate you' back to 'you walk on water.' You're driving, and somebody might wave or somebody might flip you off.
Jim Thome
#13. Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.
Michael Shermer
#14. On my bed, I sit down and flip through the cut-up books one by one, reading all the cut-up passages.
Jennifer Niven
#15. On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%.
Cory Lidle
#16. On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself to them. On any new project I'm working on, the first week is nerve-wracking, but especially with these people that I admire so much and who I just want to be equal with.
Dave Franco
#17. Maybe I shouldn't and I should flip my middle finger up to the world. Hell, I should make all my fingers dance in a bouquet of fuck offs.
Tracy Krimmer
#18. The lower spreads mean lower costs for investors, because Nasdaq investors generally do not trade directly with one another. Instead, they usually buy and sell from market-makers, brokerage firms that flip shares between buyers and sellers and keep the spread for themselves.
Alex Berenson
#19. There were people in the world who, for all their gruff arrogance, can, with scarcely a few notes, easily persuade you they are inherently kind, candid, and vulnerable - with unsettling reminders, though, that their ability to flip from one to the other is what ultimately makes them deadly.
Andre Aciman
#21. I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.
Bobby Darin
#22. Their bodies are tall and skinny, but their legs are huge. Their knees allow them to walk backward. We call them the backward-walking people. They have strange heads. When they are walking, their heads flip backward so they can see where they are going.
Ardy Sixkiller Clarke
#23. If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.
Denis Leary
#24. Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.
Pete Hegseth
#25. The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it's our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result.
John Bradshaw
#26. On Sundays, I'm up at five and in the office by six. After the show, around midday, I flip the switch, and it's all family. Our kids play sports, so we're running around.
David Gregory
#27. I wanted to study painting and become a painter, but I had a huge flip-over in my life when I was about 18 or 19. I was part of a criminal environment; I got arrested and convicted, and I had to start thinking in a new way.
Aksel Hennie
#28. And it's stupid to have rules about how long you're allowed to cry and when you're supposed to flip a switch and stop crying. You can't even think. All you can do is feel. So how the heck are you supposed to follow rules?
Lynn Plourde
#29. I have so many children. Half of mine are the ones that just must climb the tree, must climb the mountain, must get dirty, must jump off, flip into the pool sideways because it's just who they are. So you try to give them as much guidance and prepare them but they are who they are.
Angelina Jolie
#30. With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain.
Joshua Micah Marshall
#31. I didn't really know X-Men at all before I started. So I'd heard of this comic but I didn't know it was as beloved or as iconic as I have now found out, but I just know fans are going to flip out at this.
Hugh Jackman
#32. The last time I checked, I wasn't the one who tripped over a glass container of sugar that I had myself dropped ... after, of course, having received several bruises from an attempt to retrieve a flip-flop that had somehow ended up in the sink.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#33. What is worrisome about that is the U.S. standard of living. I think it is very difficult to envision our standard of living being preserved if we are in an economy where all people do is flip hamburgers, wait on people in stores, and sue each other. It's not much of a basis for an economy.
Wilbur Ross
#34. A truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.
Gayle Forman
#35. It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.'
Curtis Stone
#36. The flip-flap of Carmen's slippers could be heard out in the corridor, an aggressive sound, more eloquent than any words.
Jose Saramago
#37. After all, you can't hang out at the park with your kid and shop for coordinating head scarves and flip-flops (or whatever else Bethany does to fill the endless expanse of nonworking days) without a college education.
Oh, that's right. You totally can.
Megan McCafferty
#38. One bite, Caleb, that's all it will take.' 'Once more inside you could be all it takes,' he whispered in her ear, making her stomach flip. 'Right now, I'm willing to take the risk. Are you?
Lindsay J. Pryor
#39. I guess it's just this feeling that my body is secretly all wrong. Which means any guy who assumes I'm normal is going to flip his shit if we get to the point of nakedness. Whoa. Nope. Not what I signed up for.
Becky Albertalli
#40. I reject passive consumption. I reject the premise. I will have no passive consumers. Casanova will not stop and explain itself to you. It will not allow you to flip through it while you're dropping a deuce and waiting for Batman to show up.
Matt Fraction
#41. Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand.
Jodi Picoult
#42. John McCain is a liar and flip-flopper and panderer and bully and whiner. And it seems to be working
Michael Tomasky
#43. What?"
"That's sweet."
I am sweet. My heart flip-flops and I bite my lip a little bit. Sweet as in a lollipop, or sweet as in a girl you wold like to kiss passionately in the stacks? That's the question.
Carrie Jones
#44. When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed.
Steve Buscemi
#45. Describing a Navy SEAL-
I have no idea what 'unconventional warfare' really means, but i'm pretty sure i was on my way to meet a man who could kill me in 7 different ways with a flip-flop.
Dave Gorman
#46. Jump off the beam, flip off the bars follows your dreams, and reach for the stars
Nadia Comaneci
#47. I used to sit in bed at night and flip through design-school catalogs. I found out that Parsons accepted a small number of high school juniors, so I applied my sophomore year and got in.
Chris Benz
#48. If we have drifted 10 heads above the zero line in our coin flip experiment, what is the probability of getting 10 tails in a row to return us to zero? About 1 in 1,000.
Donald G. Reinertsen
#49. I was the guy who had been bouncing around the film industry for years, and I'd been lucky if five or 10 people would see my movies, so Captain Jack did a big flip for my career.
Johnny Depp
#50. The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.
Lauren Oliver
#51. I would love to take an old space and restore it to exactly the way I want it. Like an old factory, just something with great bones and lots of character. I'd take an old house and flip it into something very modern inside, or the other way around.
Jason Wu
#52. I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.
John Lennon
#53. Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
Carl Hiaasen
#54. Depression is the flip side of creative inspiration but it can be useful. It's telling you to stop for a little bit. You can become so fully absorbed in the world of creative work that it can lead to some imbalance in your life.
Shaun Tan
#55. Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.
Ben Goldacre
#56. You flip through it and say, 'I'd like to have that product and I'd like to have a person like that. It is You placing your order with the Universe. It's really that easy.
Joe Vitale
#57. I've always been afraid that somewhere, future time travelers flip through our mirrors as if they were t.v. screens, catching our most awkward and personal moments.
Fran Krause
#58. Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get away with anything.
Susan Choi
#59. He glosses over and doesn't even tell the truth ... Here is a guy who is the ultimate flip-flopper running for president, and he's attacking me for not being principled? That doesn't wash.
Rick Santorum
#60. I feel like I'm at a place in my life where I'm really strangely happy, and in awe of how great the world can be, and I think that's because I have gone through periods of looking at the world through a really melancholy lenses. It's all just flip sides of the same coin.
Laurel Nakadate
#61. Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.
Norman G. Finkelstein
#62. You can flip a coin to change its face, but it remains the same coin.
DaShanne Stokes
#63. The idea that Sir Gerek the Irritable was being kind to her made her stomach do a strange flip.
Melanie Dickerson
#64. I'd wear flip-flops and jeans. I guess that's not cool.
Bill Rancic
#65. In many ways, the young are more religiously minded than the older generations. I think it's the flip side of an age of individualism. Youngsters are not afraid to tell you what they think, to express their faith and be quite exuberant about it.
Vincent Nichols
#67. John McCain will pay hundreds of dollars for his own shoes. But we're the ones who have to pay for his flip-flops.
Bill Richardson
#69. This is my body, and I can make it do things. I can make it spin, flip, fly.
Megan Abbott
#70. Certainly when, you know, you put a lot of creative people together, there's ego and tension and all that stuff comes into play. But on the flip side, there's a lot of camaraderie and closeness.
Darren Star
#71. My studies are going well. The university library is my second home now. They've had to get me a private room because it takes me only a second to absorb the printed page, and curious students invariably gather around me as I flip through my books.
Daniel Keyes
#72. I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
Rowan Atkinson
#73. I'm a slow starter, but it's time to flip on the switch.
Joe Cowley
#74. I feel like my style is very much androgynous. It's rock, chic, like casual wear, but then on the flip side to that, being that it's so androgynous, it'll either be skinny jeans and a leather jacket, or if I'm doing a red carpet or event, I'll completely flip that and be wearing a suit or a dress.
Ruby Rose
#75. Sprinting is not a good idea for me in the first place. Sprinting with tears blurring my vision, even worse. But sprinting with tears blurring my vision and while wearing flip-flops is a lack of respect for human life, starting with my own.
Anna Banks
#76. As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want that. My own hair that I have day to day is a fuzzy afro. And that's who I am.
Sophie Okonedo
#77. Their (Council of Dads) wisdom reads like a psalmbook of living:
Approach the cow
Pack your flip-flops
Don't see the wall
Tend your tadpoles
Live the questions
Harvest miracles
Always learn to juggle on the side of a hill
Take a walk with a turtle
Bruce Feiler
#78. I really love the Olympics: Daley Thompson's back-flip, Derek Redmond's father helping him finish the 400m after his hamstring snapped at the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Sir Steve Redgrave - childhood memories are flooded with these moments and idols.
Giles Duley
#79. That is the flip side, you see, to laissez-faire parenting. It succeeds or not, throughout the animal kingdom as it does with humans, in direct relationship to the strength of the offspring. Some of us don't need very much. Some of us need a lot.
Cynthia Rogers Parks
#80. When you spend your days playing with dead things, one or two flip-outs are bound to come with the territory.
Mira Grant
#81. Hell's only the flip side of Paradise. Sometimes it's hard to differentiate between the two.
Sara Craven
#82. Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even - to flip it open to discreetly check for things like nose-glow or lipstick smudge.
Laurie Graham
#83. If he truly wanted me to let everything go, I'd flip over and ride him right there on the range. Screw golf, I'd screw him instead.
Karina Halle
#84. Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.
Victoria Moran
#85. Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing
and I smile.
Shel Silverstein
#86. The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
Alan Kay
#87. President George W. Bush won reelection in 2004 largely because he was seen as comfortable in his own skin, while rival John Kerry was viewed as a flip-flopping opportunist.
Ron Fournier
#88. Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration ... and almost instantly, the flip side. You have this terrible, terrible anxiety that you've just taken your last good picture.
Sally Mann
#89. Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
Rachel Sklar
#90. If you strip the horrors of history from history, the flip side of that is you strip the nobility of rising above such horrors.
Perry DeAngelis
#91. I was fine till the finger, I say to myself, as I shift to reverse. You don't flip off Gilbert Grape. Let that be known.
Peter Hedges
#92. But on the flip side, you'd make an awesome brother. I've been outnumbered by female siblings for too long.
Elaine Levine
#93. I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parties as a form of insanity.
Steven Magee
#94. The people that only listen to one song from a record and flip around that much, if that's the only way they listen to music, they're probably the kind of people that like music as something to drive to, you know?
Britt Daniel
#95. We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.
Richard Burr
#96. Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it.
Jenny Offill
#97. If you don't like the table, then you have to flip it over.
Thor Benson
#98. Flip's a player's coach, and I do know one thing, he motivates better than anybody I know. His system is very oriented around the point guard. He and Steph (Marbury) had a great relationship when Steph was in Minnesota.
Kevin Garnett
#99. I guess it's not the plan that counts, but the words in which the plan is wrapped. Semantics count for everything, and it's obvious that the resolute Republicans are better at semantics than the weak, flip-flopping Democrats.
Bruce Barnbaum
#100. The man committing suicide controls the moment of his death by executing a back flip.
Jack Goldstein
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