The present is like the flatness of Earth: an illusion. We

When I was a kid in London there was just something about the light and there's something about the way London went onto film…

— William Monahan

There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about letters. They…

— Vita Sackville-West

The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?

— Stewart O'Nan

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much…

— Edward Ruscha

I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories, to characterize…

— Philip Pullman

“When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

— Jasper Fforde

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually…

— David Hockney

Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air…

— Aristotle

If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on a kind…

— Kerry James Marshall

“If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.”

— Walter Moers

All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and…

— Chris Martin

I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.

— Edgar Allan Poe

To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts…

— Charlotte Bronte

He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who…

— Watchman Nee