Floor Tiles Quotes

#1. I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.

Randall Munroe

#2. Who in their right mind counts the tiles on the floor when they go visiting a neighbor?

Tom Upton

#3. Necessity is the ethnicity of truth.

Kedar Joshi

#4. No one's life weighs more than another.

Sarah Noffke

#5. He wanted to roar like a lion on a cement floor. And bellow like a polar bear with yellow fur worn down to pink skin against the tiles of an enclosure in a zoo. The disgust must come. Let it drip down the walls. Scorch the ceiling black with hatred. Liberate rage.

Adam Nevill

#6. We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors ... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

Pablo Neruda

#7. Fasting is, I think, a profoundly instinctive form of appeal.

Tana French

#8. Flavius's foot catches on a metal grate over a circular opening in the floor, and my stomach contracts when I think of why a room would need a drain. The stains of human misery that must have been hosed off these white tiles ...

Suzanne Collins

#9. The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.

Rumi

#10. Never feel comfortable where you're now, get stuck, complacent, and stagnate in one spot; be always relevant, dynamic, and multi gifted. This is one of the rules of the 21st C.

Assegid Habtewold

#11. Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ... with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation and a situation.

John Elkann

#12. Darkness may hide the trees
and the flowers from the eyes
but it cannot hide
love from the soul.

Kahlil Gibran

#13. She counts the tiles on the
cold bathroom floor
lays her secrets out like stones
square by square
tile by tile
she doesn't feel anymore.

Diana Rasmussen

#14. Michael Vick almost got hurt on the sideline.

Mike Tirico

#15. All that I've learned has faded away.

Ronnie Radke

#16. I found my way home, stripped naked, and lay on the bathroom floor, the cool tiles pushing up. Keeping me from falling. I didn't know how long the floor would hold me. I prayed Ellen would come home ...

Juliann Garey

#17. When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.

George Steiner

#18. Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

Oswald Chambers

#19. Pageant makeup is so different from your day-to-day look. When you're on stage you really have to pack it on.

Katherine Webb

#20. One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.

Ellen Hopkins