Formica Quotes

#1. Tara moved into the kitchen and went still at the condition of it. "Formica countertops," she said as if she'd discovered asbestos.

Jill Shalvis

#2. Agitated on the inside by disgust but with nothing showing in their immobile features, absolutely still, as unmoving as those of landscapes, of photographs, of summer sunsets, nothing showing in their ever-horizontal features, decomposing silently in the Formica chairs.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#3. Inside the glittery, swanky cases-the 'modern art' materials that were all the rage at the time, Formica and glass and plastic-was something very unpleasant, very frightening, and looking absolutely real.

Paul Thek

#4. I'll be damned. Miranda Sweet, is it you or is my glaucoma acting up again?" Ruby Sue sat her glass down on the Formica countertop with a clank. "You always did know how to make an entrance. Who do you think you are, the Queen of England?

Avery Flynn

#5. I realize that some of you may be skeptical about the idea of reincarnation, but there's a lot of evidence that it's real. Exhibit A is Vice President Al Gore, who obviously, at some point in his previous existence, was a slab of Formica.

Dave Barry

#6. Excuse me?" I said, palms down on the Formica tabletop. "Coffee? I thought we came here for pie." "I don't eat the kind of pie they serve here." I felt a flash of heat go through my stomach. I knew firsthand the kind of pie Ranger liked.

Janet Evanovich

#7. Most of the people are no thicker than Formica, yet they hunger obscurely for some continuity with the place and with each other.

Ron Loewinsohn

#8. Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.

Barbara Kingsolver

#9. Fluorescent lights on the ceiling lit up the white Formica top of her desk like an operating table, white-sand beach at high noon, French fries under the heat lamp at McDonald's.

Dennis Vickers

#10. My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

Ricky Jay

#11. Discipline is the greatest thing in the world. Where there is no discipline, there is no character. And without character, there is no progress ...

James C. Collins

#12. When my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Robert J. Morgan

#13. Every day life adds a new page in my life...but the sad part is...every page is Blank...

Bharat Singh

#14. With the Tonys it's a little tricky because a lot of the funnier jokes are more insider, so people watching at home may not get a Julie Taymor reference the way that New Yorkers would. So you have to figure out what comedy plays to a large audience and still respect the individuals who are there.

Neil Patrick Harris

#15. I think that the root of Willful Ignorance, is Fear. We'll return to that in a minute. But the root of Fear, is Simple Ignorance, at least I think that our original Fear is rooted in simply not understanding the World around us: not knowing.

Steve Bivans

#16. Today Mitt Romney is 68 years old. It's kind of sad, a 68-year-old guy with no job, no future - wait a minute, that's me.

David Letterman

#17. I was disappointed if I didn't have a chance to win a game, and if I had the chance and didn't do it ...

Jerry West

#18. I've enjoyed, to a certain extent, any country I've been in, of course like Serbia and Croatia can be very restrictive and oppressive, and frustrating, but they're still very beautiful.

Henry Rollins

#19. A watched supper dish never fills!

Charles M. Schulz

#20. Bud, my self-defense and combat skills teacher, was still trying to get me to learn knife fighting. "Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to nearly all paranormals!"
"Tasey!" I countered. "Hot pink and sparkly!

Kiersten White

#21. I am going to be a professional soccer player.

Hope Solo

#22. What you focus on grows. What you concentrate on is what you see more of in your life.

Robin Sharma

#23. To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.

Swami Vivekananda

#24. Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so completely alien ... that I no longer know whether I can be classified as a modern scientist or as an example of a beast on the way to extinction.

June Goodfield

#25. I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

John Mayer