Flophouse Quotes

#1. Holden stopped next to the desk and turned around to look at the woman sitting on the couch. Graying hair, but good features and an athletic build. In a flophouse like this, that probably meant a prostitute reaching the end of her shelf life.

James S.A. Corey

#2. From flophouse bed
To poorhouse bread,
all outhouse sorrow:
I thee wed.

Roman Payne

#3. Crawling out of the flophouse
I saw the mayor stealing my junk
I doth protest, citizen's arrest
Now my body's in his trunk
Where's the shadow government when you need it?
Where's the shadow government?
It's a bad, bad world!

They Might Be Giants

#4. You are basically a flophouse and a pimp away from Pepcid rehab, you know that? I informed Nana.

Laurie Notaro

#5. black gloom settled over the Palace Flophouse.

John Steinbeck

#6. The sheer magnitude and sameness of mass-produced and mass-marketed goods that Americans have grown to expect can be really disorienting.

Sam Calagione

#7. Steve did not have a death wish. He had the exact opposite. His appetite for life was so strong, it outweighed all fear. So what if his choices shortened his life? His choices filled his life, and enriched the lives of those around him.

Richard Branson

#8. Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Joyce Meyer

#9. We develop a sense of self by coming to see ourselves in the reflections of how others see us - what they reflect back about us, how they view us, what kind of person they think we are and so on.

Jacqui Stedmon

#10. Choosing to work in HR is like choosing to work in the complaint department of hell, except way more frustrating, because at least in hell you'd be able to agree that that Satan is a real dick-wagon without having to toe the company line.

Jenny Lawson

#11. Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

Herta Muller

#12. When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams - you can find true happiness!

Casi McLean

#13. Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can't afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

Robert Musil

#14. I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#15. Ellen Degeneres: "There's a curfew for all the people on American Idol and you didn't pay attention to it, ever."
Blake: "Yeah, why?"
Ellen: "Why? That's my question.

Blake Lewis

#16. If someone wanted to do a biopic about me, I would like for them to consult my family.

Andre Holland

#17. Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

Samuel Johnson

#18. Never take anything for granted.

Benjamin Disraeli

#19. And do I look like the kind of man that can be intimidated?" barked Uncle Vernon.
"Well ... " said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to reveal his sinisterly revolving eye. Uncle Vernon lept backward in horror and collided painfully with a luggage trolley. "Yes, I'd have to say you do, Dursley.

J.K. Rowling

#20. When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.

Agatha Christie