Flopping Quotes:

There is nothing more awkward and more laughable than a naked dude with his wiener flopping.

- Mark Hoppus

topic: Awkward, Naked, Flopping

I've been a hunter pretty much all my life.

- Mitt Romney

source: "Romney's Hunting Experience Limited to Two Trips, Despite Claims" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. April 4, 2007.

topic: Hunters, Flopping, Flip Flops

It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.

- Mitt Romney

source: "Mitt's Vietnam Flip-Flop: His Most Disturbing Yet" by Deroy Murdock, townhall.com. February 4, 2008.

topic: Desire, Vietnam, Flopping, Flip Flops

Flip-flopping is kind of an easy thing to identify. During a recent convention, we heard an irate Senator make an angry speech declaring that it is not what you say but, rather, what you do that counts. You flip-flop when you make promises and fail to fulfill them.

- Frank Lautenberg

topic: Promise, Speech, Flip, Senators, Flopping

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

- Evelyn Waugh

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

topic: Artist, Age, Standing Out, Tenors, Flopping

President George W. Bush won reelection in 2004 largely because he was seen as comfortable in his own skin, while rival John Kerry was viewed as a flip-flopping opportunist.

- Ron Fournier

topic: Skins, President, Reelection, President George W Bush, Flopping

I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.

- Mitt Romney

source: "A Primary Factor". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 14, 2006.

topic: Believe, Law, Years, Flopping, Flip Flops

I guess it's good in a sense that it stops any of it from happening, but now you're telling me if it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals and a guy has a chance to make a play he's going to be like, 'Well, do I want this $10,000 or do I want a championship?'

- Blake Griffin

topic: Nba, Games, Play, Flopping, Nba Finals

Look, I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.

- Mitt Romney

source: "Romney: ‘I learn from experience’". "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com.

topic: Independent, Trying, Looks, Flopping, Flip Flops

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

- Joan Baez

topic: Violence, Bigger, Nonviolence, Flopping

Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.

- Lea Thompson

topic: Children, Mean, Land, Flopping

I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam.

- Mitt Romney

source: "Opinion A new Republican archetype" by Charles Pierce, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2007.

topic: Country, Fighting, Troops, Flopping, Flip Flops

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

- Kobe Bryant

topic: Water, Guy, Stuff, Flailing, Flopping

He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch.

- Graham Greene

topic: Memories, Flower, Men, Flopping, Balconies

I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it means to be human, to have the darkness just as much as the light- that in fact the dark parts make the light visible; without them, the light would disappear. But I guess he has to figure other stuff out first, like how to keep his neck from flopping all over the place and how to sit up.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Mean, Dark, Light, What It Means To Be Human, Flopping

Donald Trump, I guess one idea here if he`s flip flopping, has he bought himself cover with his base by all the inflammatory thing he`s said over the last year? But the flip side is, all of those inflammatory things, the voters he`s trying to reach by flip flopping, are they tuned out to him because of that?

- Steve Kornacki

topic: Years, Ideas, Trying, Flopping, Flip Flops

According to a new study, Botox injections can help back pain. So you see, that's why John Kerry had all that Botox - his back was killing him from all that flip-flopping on issues.

- Jay Leno

topic: Pain, Issues, Botox, Flopping, Back Pain

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

- Winston Churchill

source: Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

topic: War, Cat, Land, Flopping

... where do they go when they die? We hear of the elephant graveyards, where the elephants go to die, but how much more curious it is that birds are not falling out of the sky all the time, on our heads, at our feet, dying and falling and flopping to the ground. I rarely see a dead bird on the ground.

- Sophy Burnham

source: Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.26, Penguin

topic: Fall, Sky, Elephants, Flopping

In an interview last night, Rick Perry criticized Mitt Romney for flip-flopping on the issues. Romney said that Perry has no idea what he's talking about. Then he added, 'But he does know what he's talking about.'

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Night, Talking, Ideas, Flopping

I'm the LCL - the Last Center Left. I've been doing the same things for 13 years, but now they're flopping and falling, and the refs are falling for it, too.

- Shaquille O'Neal

topic: Basketball, Fall, Years, Refs, Flopping

I guess it's not the plan that counts, but the words in which the plan is wrapped. Semantics count for everything, and it's obvious that the resolute Republicans are better at semantics than the weak, flip-flopping Democrats.

- Bruce Barnbaum

topic: Flip, Republican, Weak, Flopping, Semantics

Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this," said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wildly around.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Noise, Tongue, Yeah, Flopping, Umbridge

Even the weather seemed to be celebrating; as June approached, the days became cloudless and sultry, and all anybody felt like doing was strolling onto the grounds and flopping down on the grass with several pints of iced pumpkin juice, perhaps playing a casual game of Gobstones or watching the giant squid propel itself dreamily across the surface of the lake.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Lakes, June, Games, Flopping, Giant Squid

2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Dream, Horse, Beer, Mattresses, Empty Bottles

I think the thing about Anne Boleyn is there is an exotic quality to her. This is a woman who wasn’t raised in the English court. She was in the French court and Hapsburg court. She has a continental exotic quality to her. She’s quite a fiery woman and incredibly intelligent. So I think Anne really stood out – fire and intelligence and boldness – in comparison to the English roses that were flopping around court, she would’ve stood out. And Henry noticed that.

- Natalie Dormer

topic: Thinking, Intelligent, Fire, Continental, Flopping

And I don't want posture lessons from a country that spent the last 20 years flopping on its back and grabbing its ankles when Saddam showed up waving stacks of Francs in exchange for bang-sticks.

- James Lileks

topic: Country, Years, Bangs, Flopping, Grabbing

"I go so far as to say, miss, morehover," proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with a most alarming tendency to hold forth as from a pulpit-"and let my words be took down and took to Mrs. Cruncher through yourself-that wot my opinions respectin' flopping has undergone a change, and that wot I only hope with all my heart as Mrs. Cruncher may be a flopping at the present time."

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.296, Penguin

topic: Funny, Humorous, Heart, Flopping, Wot

Hollywood's thinking is very typical. And it's just really predictable too. And I think at Hollywood, these box office movies are flopping. I mean, there hasn't been an original thought coming out of Hollywood since the '80s.

- Andrea Tantaros

source: Source: deadline.com

topic: Mean, Thinking, Office, Flopping

Ideas matter a lot, the underlying ideas that stand behind policies. When you don't have ideas, your policies are flip-flopping all over the place. When you do have ideas, you have more consistency. And when you have the right ideas - then you can get somewhere (reagan had the right ideas).

- George P. Shultz

topic: Ideas, Consistency, Matter, Flopping, Right Ideas

ISIL videos, ISIL training videos are telling lone wolves the easiest way to cut by a combat assault weapon in America is at a gun show, because of the flip-flopping political approach of Washington.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Cutting, Gun, Assault Weapons, Lone Wolf, Lone

I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines.

- Charlemagne Palestine

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Discipline, Different, Flip, Flopping