Best Flipped Quotes

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Three days in a city now and I’m quite flipped. There’s too much noise. I just can’t do with it.

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.

Altruism is innate, but it’s not instinctual. Everybody’s wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

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

…and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.

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

I met Quincy [Jones], he had heard my album, someone played the album and he flipped over it.

He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio star. I wished someone would kill this radio.

Not only did I come out as a reality star that was very boisterous and vivacious and outspoken and all those things. I flipped that into money and respect. And a lot of people can’t do that.

I said, ‘I need to know how he died.’ He flipped back and pointed at, ‘Why?’ So I can stop inventing how he died. I’m always inventing.

Bridget did the only thing she could do in this situation that wouldn’t end with her doing a life stint in prison. She flipped the woman off. With both hands.

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.

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

I don’t have formal training at all, but I did grow up around design. My parents both flipped homes. A typical weekend for us was walking through model home units. I loved walking through interesting floor plans and seeing different design aesthetics.

I flipped down the visor so I could check myself in the mirror, and something small and heavy dropped into my lap. I froze, my breath stuck in my throat. What—? Gingerly, I looked down. It wasn’t a grenade. It was a key ring. One key was for this van. I looked at it blankly. Well, that’ll simplify things, Fang said.

There was a heavy, dark pause of vast significance. Which Jim broke by flashing his hands and belting out, Booga-wooga! At least Eddie laughed. Adrian flipped Jim the bird and headed to the fridge for another beer.

I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.

I can’t imagine the biggest blow to me was that marriage not working out. That just flipped me out.

After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached out with my little finger and flipped the Barbie’s head. It went thack thack against the door. I flipped it again. Thack thack. Whee. I had a new hobby.

I think women are great drivers. To be honest, I’ve only been in one car accident – one of my best friends, his wife was driving. She went into oncoming traffic, our car flipped almost four times. I didn’t even have time to put on a seat belt, because they’d just picked me up.

It’s very professionally done, very clever songwriting. I like Backstreet Boys more than ‘N Sync, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, it’s all very well done stuff. Much better than the Partridge Family and New Kids On The Block. I took my kids to see Backstreet Boys live and they flipped out

The moon is so beautiful. It’s a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.

The Vietnam War was in full swing, the Air Force wanted me and I wanted out of Flint, so three years in the USA and that fourth one spent here in Vietnam really flipped my life around.

Enlightenment just means that you don’t have a structural self. It means you’ve flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings to you. You’re unaffected by everything.

Los Angeles is where you have to be if you want to be an actor. You have no choice. You go there or New York. I flipped a coin about it. It came up New York, so I flipped again. When you’re starting out to be an actor, who wants to go where it’s cold and miserable and be poor there?

My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It’s kind of flipped, and I’m not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.

He grunted and stirred, withdrawing from her. She only had a moment to be disappointed and then he flipped her to her back and rose over her, powerful and male. He casually parted her legs with his knees and thrust into her again, hot and hard. She gasped at the swift invasion, the lovely feeling, and then his face was next to hers, his big palms cradling her cheeks. What I want, he drawled, is ye. Nothin’ else.

Yes, it seems we’ve got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake over and over again. It’s really uncanny how we build these beautiful multicultural edifices and then allow this switch to be flipped and everybody goes, ‘Oh, the other, get them out of here.

I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.

Sampling is a new way of doing something that’s been with us for a long time […] The mix breaks free from the old associations. New contexts form from old. The script gets flipped. The languages evolve and learn to speak in new forms, new thoughts. The sound of thought becomes legible again at the edge of the new meanings.

My whole view of music completely flipped over on its head. I grew up listening to punk rock, SST. I liked people that were making music that weren’t necessarily very good at their instruments, it was more about the ideas they had than how well they could play and sing.

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.

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.