Flipped Quotations

I flipped through a book on harp seals in the late 1970s and saw images of them swimming in emerald green pools of water surrounded by huge sheets of ice. Right then I was hooked, and I knew this was a story I wanted to do.

My junior year, I went to an LSAT-prep course. I flipped over my test and thought, 'You bastards.' I walked out and went to Waffle House. That's where I had what I call 'The Waffle House Epiphany': I didn't want to be a lawyer. I wanted to make a dent in the universe.

Why don't we hear more about and from Asians when it comes to race in America? Are Asians the new Invisible Man - there but not there? In some ways, yeah. Blacks and whites are always carping about the metrics of racism. And any conversation about immigration reform is immediately flipped into a referendum on Hispanics.

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

I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats.

After I shower and put in all my products, I hang out with the diffuser with my head flipped over for five to seven minutes. But before I use a hair dryer, I'll towel-dry my hair. Actually, drying your hair with an old T-shirt is a great trick. It helps to get all the extra water out, without bringing on frizz.

Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate type of hip hop. They decided to tell everybody 'Well, this is what hip hop is,' instead of coming back to the pioneers and getting the true definition of what hip hop is and what it was and what we been pushing for all these years.

'Citizen Ruth' I saw when I was in college, and I really flipped out over it. I just knew I wanted to work with the person who made that movie.

We've changed in the sense that we flipped - and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression.

The first rappers I ever got into were Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, and Nas. Those are the guys. Those are the dudes that flipped my wig.

When I was 18, 19, I was presented as the 'aw shucks' Nebraska kid who's coming up with a big serve, and then I flipped out a couple of times, and then I was ueber-brat, when I feel like there's parts of both, but I don't think I am either one, if that makes sense.

I've been caught in parachute pants. And on my high school yearbook, they used the wrong picture. They were supposed to use the picture of me with a nice suit on. They used me with my collar flipped up, in a fuchsia and white striped shirt. I blame Prince and Michael Jackson in the Eighties for that.

We started again -- we have an alternate source of power -- but then Duquesne Light flipped the switch for whatever reason a second time, and that blew the first source, and that's what caused the problem. At the same time, probably a surge here caused a little fire in an electrical panel. That's been entirely taken care of.

We hit this embankment. The car flipped over twenty-one times.

We're excited and the kids are excited. I hope the results will be contagious, because I do think we've flipped a switch with these kids.

We're excited about Vince's personality in big games and the way he handled himself at the end of last year, specifically the Rose Bowl. I think that flipped another switch for him and put him in another gear. He's pumped about this game.

She came over and sat down and we talked for about an hour and a half that day and for the first time I saw a spark and excitement from her about starting the season and really wanting to do well. It's like that switch just flipped that year.

She heard a collision and she turned around and she saw the police car had been struck. The vehicle that struck it was flipping over. It flipped over twice and struck my brother-in-law.

I was terrified and could easily have flipped the car,

I don't even know if Jared saw me. He just flipped it, and I took over.

I couldn't see where they were doing a whole lot of good to get me out, ... I was trying my best to explain to them what needed to happen. And what did they eventually do? They flipped it over and I got out. I hope that was a lesson learned.

Car flipped over on him - waist on up - flipped on me - waist on down - broke my back in three places. In a fraction of a second, I woke up in a shock trauma unit. I had tubes coming out of me. I couldn't move. I was paralyzed from the waist down.

Basically, she just flipped out. She was under a lot of pressure, I guess, and whatever happened, she just snapped.

I look up at the scoreboard and there are signs, 'Let's Go Giants'. The referees, when they flipped the coin, they asked us if we wanted heads or tails. They had no idea who the home team was and who was away. The crowd noise we had to deal with, we never had to do a silent count at home.

If we would have raced with the infield like that, cars that hit the mud would have flipped over.

I always tell people there's some kind of wall that you have to break through to see the beauty of L.A. The first few times I came here, I was like, 'I don't know about this place.' Then one day, it just totally flipped for me. It was crazy.

He flipped the switch and took over our team. It's fun to have a mature guy who's not (just) surviving at quarterback. He's getting better every play.

He flipped the switch and had confidence and took over our team. This is now Vince Young's team.

He flipped the switch and had confidence and took over our team,'' said Texas' Mack Brown, who is still searching for his first conference title in 22 years as a head coach.

He flipped his palate real bad, you can hear it. He made a loud, roaring noise.

Have you been around South Beach? Most of the people I see with chains are elderly Jewish gentlemen. I don't know what he's talking about. There's no rule we have that doesn't affect several hundred young African-American men. You can't play the race card here without having it flipped back at you.

It became natural for him. It wasn't long before he picked it up and he had the stroke down. We flipped him around to right-handed at age 13 and he did OK. But he was definitely better left-handed.

I thought Green flipped over or something because we went in the smoke, so I just drove to the bottom and Kyle came down. I should have been more worried about stopping my car than people from behind running into me, and I ended up being that guy that got Kyle.

I was disappointed with that. We're on top of the guy and then all of a sudden we flipped to our back and we're pinned within seconds. I don't know how that happened.

It gets to the point where it's so frustrating that you just want to get away, ... I almost flipped my Range Rover trying to get away from the paparazzi last week, and it made me so heated.

Jarom has probably come as far as any of our guys, ... He has finally flipped that switch. ... We expect big things. Jarom Fano has improved more than any guy I've had an opportunity to coach in the last 10 years. He is a different cat now.

I saw it one day when he landed and he almost flipped it over. I think it got caught in the wind or something.

I saw him jump in the air and go for the rebound. And the guy slid under him and he flipped over the guy's back. It looked like everyone that should have seen it just turned away and didn't want to see it. I was concerned for my player.

Referees have a hard job. I'm not going to just go out there and bash them. But at the same time, whenever there's a tough situation, you always want your call. If we had got all the calls, then Pittsburgh would be flipped around. That's football. Referees try their best, and that's all you can say.

I won't deny that I flipped my fingers in his direction, but only because I was so disgusted and frustrated at being humiliated by a fellow manager.

I wonder if the polite thing to do is always the right thing to do. When I met the family from Japan, they all bowed. I pretended like I was going to bow, but then I just kept going and flipped over on my back. I did this five times. I think they got the point.

I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's time to see if I can do this.' I basically flipped a coin to see if I was going to write science fiction or if I was going to do a crime novel. The coin toss went to science fiction.

I was a young kid; I did a little time in the Billerica House of Correction, and it basically turned my life around because I said, 'Oh, I'll never be locked up again. They're not taking away my privacy.' So I flipped a coin: heads - Miami, tails -California.

We finally took the lead and then Randy goes out and what do we do? We walk one and we hit one. Right then is when you gotta go out and get them three up-three down and get the momentum. But we flipped it and they end up scoring three runs and they go back up on us.

We had an accident, drove off the road, ... hit something, went up and came down and flipped on its side. I've got some bumps and bruises on me, and there was some concern about neck injury. . . . Because of some of the symptoms I was experiencing, they transferred me up to Germany to have an MRI done. . . . I'll have some pain for a while, but I'm okay.

Utilities get out of the way. Can you imagine if you flipped a light switch and had to watch an ad before you got electricity? Can you imagine if you turned on a faucet and had to watch an ad before the water came out?

We were sleepwalking through 2 1/2 quarters. Then in the third quarter we became more aggressive. We had no focus and then for some reason the switch was flipped and we got back in it.

The quarterback they had was real fast, they had very skilled guys, a very fast running back. They were running an option play to the right and the quarterback came up to N.D. and went to shake N.D. and flipped the ball out for the option to the running back and N.D. caught it in midair and took it 75 yards.

We were just gonna really run it out, and (Hart) stepped back and flipped a long one.

We kind of flipped the script. Everybody was saying we weren't supposed to be here and were looking for an Akron-Kent State final.

We were talking too much and we flipped the puck over the boards. We deserved those penalties.

When we went around in the alley, (Robinson) was heading eastbound in the alley. So we kind of flipped around, he kind of (saw) us in the corner of his eye and he started heading back to his residence. So he knew he had a warrant,

We flipped a coin in the end zone, I mean past the baseline, in a high school gym in Vegas.

The puck got loose in the zone and I sent it down low to Derek Smith. He sent it back to Brandon, who was on the low post, and Brandon flipped it across the net to me. I just tapped it in." ()

It was almost brilliant that he waited until they flipped the ball back,

It was almost brilliant he waited 'til he flipped the ball back.

I've never flipped for home and home. But I also flipped for a Thursday game because we would have had those two players then. To play Duncanville (27-7) is hard enough, but to play them without two guards is monumental.

Some witnesses said the driver was going about 90 mph when he lost control of his vehicle, hit the median and flipped the vehicle several times before crashing into a car in the northbound lanes.

A deer hunter flipped the switch for me. He dropped two books on my desk 'Diet for a New America' by John Robbins and 'A Challenging Second Opinion' by John McDougal, and asked me if they were valid.

One guy flipped us off. Another guy shouted, ?Get back in the kitchen where you belong.' We just laughed.

One day when I was 16, I rode my bike to the nearby DMV office to get my driver's permit. Some of my friends already had their licenses, so I figured it was time. But when I handed the clerk my green card as proof of U.S. residency, she flipped it around, examining it. 'This is fake,' she whispered. 'Don't come back here again.'

Now, everything is just flipped upside down 100 percent. He was wrong then, and I think he's wrong now. He should never have raised rates.

Back then, before the Internet, you had these paper catalogs that you ordered all the food from. So, we flipped through the catalogs, looked up the food we wanted, called them up, and they would show up in trucks.

AJ should have just gone to first, stole second, stole third, scored and then flipped the guy off at home plate, ... You play the game to beat the other guy, not to beat him up.

This Administration is trying to change the whole intellectual basis for fiscal policy that Alan Greenspan enforced when deficits were large in the early 1990s. We got fiscal discipline through the idea that deficits matter. That's been flipped on its head.

They made me feel so comfortable. For the last few nights they had a police officer sit outside. It really flipped me out.

There was a yellow recycling bin, and the lid was flipped open. And inside the dumpster was a pile of rocks, boulders. And you could see a hand in there.

Its left wing seemed to hit the ground and the plane flipped over.

It's almost flipped now to where they stopped going to the tournament and we started going to the tournament. He may never admit it, but he may be thinking in the back of his mind, he could be a part of that right now.

The officials allowed much more aggressive play than our conference allows. The officials let us bang, grab and push tonight. When that whistle blew, you could have flipped a coin.

It's interesting they flipped the jobs. They want the future CEO to have experience on the domestic and international side equally. It may be that Wal-Mart looks at the international side as equal to the U.S.

They came down and we tried to concentrate on Breuer. We pinned him on the baseline and I'm saying, 'Yes, at least Breuer isn't shooting,' but he flipped it out to that kid and he hit it and banked it in, no less.

They've literally flipped the weight. This has been such a shock to classroom teachers.

Every time you step in the snow you leave Canada imprinted. We even flipped the design on the other foot so it always is left right side up.

I knew I was going to cut to the middle, but I didn't know when or how. The guy went flying, and I flipped the puck up, knocked it down and shot it.

I flipped through his journals and then it was (history) out the window. We were making it into a romp. We wanted to have a clean slate and just have fun.

I flipped through his journals and then it was (history) out the window, ... We were making it into a romp. We wanted to have a clean slate and just have fun.

I had to get out of the Boston area, so I flipped a coin and said, 'Heads - Miami, tails - California. I was in my mid-20s and came out here with no training. Acting wasn't even in my mind.

I hadn't been in that position before. I was hoping Kyle is OK. I thought Green flipped over because we went in the smoke, so I just dove to the bottom and Kyle came down.

If the wind didnt knock it over, the water did, ... Highway 90 that runs east and west along the coast was flipped upside down and just crumbled in places.

In overtime they took the lead and we flipped a switch. We started attacking the half-court trap.

I know, I know, I know. So I flipped out!

I just flipped the switch on. I can't believe I won. It seems the tour has been going smooth for me. The overall impression has been remarkable. The support of the fans and NBC is something that competition skateboarding needs.

I haven't thought about it in a while. It's been such a gradual, steady thing. It wasn't like the room was dark and, all of a sudden, the light switch was flipped on.

Hey, what are you gonna do about it? I'll tell you one thing: I'd rather be sitting here than flipped over at La Guardia.

I didn't realize until afterward that the guy who had the coin and flipped it was one of his former players. I think he felt guilty, so this time we played the first game in Chapel Hill.

For some reason, it just quit. It was like someone flipped a switch off.

a huge black eye for the city of Chicago. If I was from there, I'd be embarrassed by the way our families were treated. My wife didn't get hit or anything, but people flipped her off and were screaming at her.

The Dome is a metaphor that could mean anything - it could be nuclear fallout, terrorists - I've always been fascinated with stories where people's roles are flipped on their heads, be it the Wall Street guy, the techno guy, etc. All of those things are only successful when there are people and money around.

The coin flipped from head to tails and they decided to sell them at the end today.

The lights are the problem. Some are facing the field, others were flipped around by the storm.

I had Flipped. -Bryce Loski

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