Flat Quotes

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Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing… — Martin Amis
Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?… — Robert Bolt
On Jesus: "Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and… — Haven Kimmel
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and… — William Shakespeare
It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about… — Susanna Kaysen
Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines… — Laurie R. King
All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch. — Isaac Asimov
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it.… — Mark Twain
There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at… — Elizabeth Berg
That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that… — George Orwell
Stop it," spluttered Eustace, "go away. Put that thing away. It's not safe. Stop it, I say. I'll tell Caspian. I'll have you muzzled and… — C.S. Lewis
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat,… — Anne Lamott
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon… — William Shakespeare
I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps… — Doris Lessing
One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat. — Mark Twain
The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentineâ€™s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentineâ€™s Day on Februaryâ€™s shirt:… — Tom Robbins
The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, No higher than the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
You donâ€™t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant… — Dorothy Parker
I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains — Annie Dillard
For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth--and not too interesting. It's the little pits and bumps… — Lori Foster

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