Quotes about floored (16 Quotes)




    Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important or significant in what is only trivial or ephemeral. A simple instance of failing in this is provided by the poll-man at Cambridge, who learned perfectly how to factorize a2 - b2 but was floored because the examiner unkindly asked for the factors of p2 - q2.


    I just couldn't believe I actually got the chance to really try it out. I never thought I'd really get to do it -- I just dreamed about it. I was floored with how well I did. My first goal was really just to finish alive. The rest was just for the experie




    The first time Karpinski got any clarification about the photographs was January 23, 2004. The criminal investigator, Colonel Marcelo, came into Karpinski's office and showed her the pictures. When I saw the pictures I was floored, ... Really, the world was spinning out of control when I saw those pictures, because it was so far beyond and outside of what I imagined. I thought that maybe some soldiers had taken some pictures of prisoners behind barbed wire or in their cell or something like that. I couldn't imagine anything like what I saw in those photographs.

    She lost control of the car and drove up on the sidewalk, accidentally floored it, went 80 miles an hour, and when she was stopped by the police chief, she offered the guy a bribe, ... And the cop said, 'We don't do that here.'

    I was a lifelong fan and a student of the wrestling business. When I got the call to come over as a consultant for that, to help with the production of a regular TV show, I was floored. It was a dream come true, like managing a football team would be for some people or whatever.

    I flatter myself a terribly liberal New York playwright, but his prose floored me because it was so extreme, ... I found myself asking, 'Wow, does this have any value Does this merit a place on bookshelves' And I thought, if he could unnerve me so complet


    I don't have words for this. The letters and notes I'm getting from around the country - the musicians in this country are shocked. They are floored by this decision. It upsets the world that we live in.

    We put out press releases to tell people what had happened to me and that I had a large weight gain but a lot of people still didn't know. The ones that didn't know were floored. That was a real humbling experience for me.

    The script was very explicit about the nudity that was supposed to be in the movie. Actually, they don't show everything we shot. They would cut here and it was floored. It was very embarrassing.




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