Flipped Quotes

• Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Life, People, Inspire

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.96, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A painting is more than the sum of its parts

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Logical Reasoning, Mathematical Logic, Greek

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.34, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  People, Giving, Personality

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.112, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Moving, Fall, Heart

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.14, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Flower, Light, Tree

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.34, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Silence, Bakers, Way

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• Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Pain, Littles, Sometimes

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• The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

  Aristotle

  Peace, Philosophical, Logical Reasoning

  James McLean Watson, Aristotle (1909). “Aristotle's criticisms of Plato”

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• In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

  Ed O'Neill

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself

  Mary J. Blige

  I Like You, Looks, Time On Earth

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• The world is more than the sum of its suffering.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Mathematical Logic, Greek

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• I'm Sorry are two of the most powerful words in our language, especially when they are not flipped blithely over the shoulder but spoken from the heart. They help restore order, balance, harmony. They reduce pain. They heal broken friendship. If they were medecine, they'd be called a miracle.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Sorry, Pain, Powerful

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• Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

  Serj Tankian

  Our Society, Injustice, Awareness

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mathematical Logic, Greek, Fists

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.401, Anchor

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• Jenk shook his head as he headed for the rental car counter. He felt his shoulders tightening as he walked away, certain that Izzy wasn't quite ready to be silent or invisible yet. He was halfway there when Izzy shouted, "Jenkins! I wish I could quit yew!" Of course. The obligatory Brokeback Mountain reference. Jenk flipped Zanella a double bird without bothering to look back.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Halfway There, Car, Bird

  Suzanne Brockmann (2013). “Into the Storm: Troubleshooters 10: Troubleshooters 10”, p.311, Hachette UK

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• I used to think that a guy telling me I'm "not like other girls" was a compliment and I've now flipped to seeing that for the back-handed compliment that it is.

  Liz Prince

  Girl, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I had Flipped. -Bryce Loski

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Bryce Loski

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• I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.

  James Garner

  Swimming, Wife, Saws

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• Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

  Aimee Bender

  Mom, Magazines, Pages

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.51, Random House

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• One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was a voluptuous young woman, naked, her body oiled, writhing on the floor while fondling herself intimately... I watched for some time --- riveted by the sociological significance of it all.

  Robert Bork

  New York, Naked, Television

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• It's not about whether you are innocent or guilty. It's about whether or not you can prove you're innocent. If you can't prove you're innocent, then you're considered guilty. It's been flipped: Now it's guilty until proven innocent.

  Ronald Jones

  Death Penalty, Guilty, Innocent

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• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Men, Race

  McDougal, Beryl Markham (1997). “West with the Night”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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• Shamus ordered half a cup of house brew. Then he proceeded to fill the cup up the rest of the way with milk and sugar. Lots of sugar. “Sure you got enough milk in your sugar?” I asked as we strolled out of the shop and headed south. He flipped me off. “You drink your coffee your way, and I’ll drink my coffee the right way.

  Devon Monk

  Coffee, House, Half

  Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.219, Penguin

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• There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

  Laura Lippman

  Children, Math, Odds

  "I'd Know You Anywhere". Book by Laura Lippman, 2010.

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• No, but ..." But I had felt something from another person. Someone who spent time with Alec. The last card in my head flipped over. "I know who it is. It's him. That guy." "Of course," said Carter dryly. "I knew it was that guy. It's always that guy.

  Richelle Mead

  Guy, Cards, Lasts

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus On Top”, p.222, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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