Floundered Quotes

#1. China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust.

Rose George

#2. Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ... One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#3. I floundered in my twenties. Though I wore a long scarf. And when I got to be thirty I got a job at Temple University in Philadelphia. I worked there for seven years, and I finally got fired, mostly for political reasons.

Gerald Stern

#4. It took me ten years to write a proper story. I floundered about trying to shape something, counting on the 'feeling' I had as I wrote, only to discover upon rereading my work that the feeling had disappeared, and what remained was an empty shell.

David Bergen

#5. Let us be perfectly clear here," said Squire Loontwill. "You are willing to marry our Alexia, even though she is ... well ... ," he floundered. Felicity came to his rescue. "Old." Evylin added, "And plain." "And tan," said Felicity. The squire continued. "And so extraordinarily assertive.

Gail Carriger

#6. Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. Leresy, you dung-sucking puddle of codpiece-juice!" She floundered in the water. "I'm going to shove these shards down your throat!

Daniel Arenson

#8. He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks.

John Steinbeck

#9. She floundered in a fog of his hatreds and desires, his

Carol Ervin

#10. For much of my life I floundered under the excuse of "nobody's perfect," the liberating and over-used phrase that affords guys like me the freedom to pile up sins in a careless and unchecked way. Ironically, being perfect is precisely what we are called to be!

Tarek Saab

#11. But . . ." Dominic floundered around for a bit before pointing at me accusingly. "You said that there's weird shit, but it normally turns out to have a rational explanation."
"It does," said Beverley. "The explanation is a wizard did it.

Ben Aaronovitch

#12. This then is programming, both a tar pit in which many efforts have floundered and a creative activity with joys and woes all its own.

Anonymous

#13. Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

Al Capone

#14. I do think of myself as a bit of a loner, a bit of an independent. I'm one of those people who, when they're sick, like to curl up and remove myself. I don't like a lot of people around. There is nothing you can do to help.

Michael Douglas

#15. The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

Arthur Helps

#16. If you are money, then, when you die, you will be spent.

Rich Cohen

#17. As if being a former vampire drone in a werewolf household were not shocking enough, the maid then opened her mouth and proved that she was also, quite reprehensibly, French.

Gail Carriger

#18. Alternative spaces, independent media, satellite, these all provide some tools by which we can work more independently and deal more directly with communities we hope to reach. Distribution is key, and finding alternative ways to do that with new media is critical.

Chuck D

#19. Volleyball is one of the most interactive games going. It is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation - but most of all, of reciprocity - of teamwork. There is no way to free-lance in volleyball.

Marv Dunphy

#20. If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars.

MC Hammer

#21. I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

Lee Child

#22. The hopelessness of everything I was trying to occupy myself with was at last glaringly crystal clear. But

Claire-Louise Bennett

#23. I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

Jane Austen

#24. A noble and resolute people can safely tread a dark and fearsome path if they always shine before them the lamps of wisdom and valor.

Aleksandra Layland