Quotes about tile (15 Quotes)


    There's nothing wrong with a female construction company. In most of the jobs where you've got females doing wallpaper and tile and things like that, they are the best at it because they are more detail-oriented than most men.

    The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by square foot, not square yard like carpet. Thinking the price was plenty reasonable, she had an extra room of tile ordered for installation. When the bill arrived, it was staggering. She and her husband began a fight that continued all through the construction job. They ended up divorced, but not until she had broken every window.

    We wanted to make it clean and simple, to get as much use out of the space as possible. The bathroom was really a mess. There was carpeting and wallpaper. We took out the tub and put in a walk-in shower. We put in tile, no carpet. We left the cedar on the ceiling, because we didn't want to lose the cabin feeling.


    We can learn a lot from dogs. The sweet balm of puppy love can soothe a tender hearts. Often the way to inner peace and contentment is as close as a cool tile floor, a rub on the belly or a long walk with someone we love.


    Dude, I'm not sure if this U of M situation thing is going to work out. See, I still haven't heard from the school. Listen Reed, you so need to get me a job if it doesn't work out. I am a writer and am known for excellent architectural research and you better hook me up with a fabulous job somewhere. Also, it's been almost ten days since I filed for divorce and no one has shown interest in me. I think I need to hook up with the Germans. For some reason, the Germans really like me alot. Let's see there was Mattias, the German intern over at the firm that I worked for who liked me alot and then there was my German roof tile supplier in Singapore who kept giving me free VIP passes to all those events and then of course there is my neverending love affair with Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe whose autobiography by Peter Blake contains one of the most erotic sketches in the whole wide world. These Germans I tell you. They have this thing for me. I must look like the Bauhaus.

    While they were doing that, they dropped some equipment off the tray. What they dropped was a film processor, it struck the left hand side of the body flap. There was some tile damage on the body flap, which they're addressing. They're looking, of course, at structural inspections to evaluate if there is any structural damage to the body flap.

    AND I REMEMBER only this a window box with red geraniums overlooking a cobblestone street our room up a dark narrow staircase and you in that ridiculous tub with Paris all around us the Eiffel Tower, the Seine, Notre Dame always your knees scrunched up by your ears in the bright blue tile tub of our attic cranny above the noisy Rue de Vaugirard framed in red blossoms nothing more.


    We'll get through it like we get through any other work stoppage, like a hurricane. But Hispanics make up a lot of our workers. Take tile roofing. You can't get a native-born American who knows how to do it.

    All the plumbing fixtures are original and intact. The house has four fireplaces with each displaying different tile work. Each has a wood mantle with a mirror behind it.



    I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you.

    They came in and cut openings in the court to put in tile as an afterthought, but all that did was make more cracks. Eventually the rock underneath disintegrated. That left a lot of ups and downs on the court.



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