Flat Quotes

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When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. — Roger Babson
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. — Francis Bacon
I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record. — Erykah Badu
I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd… — Travis Barker
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. — Henry Adams
I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. — Ambrose Bierce
You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built… — Michael Bloomberg
We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes like Doc Martens.… — Jo Brand
I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up. — Jimmy Buffett
The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide… — Herman Cain
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other. — Miguel de Cervantes
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how… — Chuck Close
Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat. — Carmen McRae
I've heard people say my swing's not perfect, and I know that. But golf's a natural sport, very sensitive. It's played a lot by feel.… — Sergio Garcia
I'm a wealthy man now. I've got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy.… — Evgeni Plushenko
For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit. — Ernie Pyle
As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings,… — Nan Fairbrother
You live during the match, and you have strong emotions, but you don't want to get too overexcited. My body's totally flat now. I cannot… — Roger Federer
This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless… — John Maynard Keynes

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