Flat Quotes

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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure. — Bill Watterson
And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because… — Mark Haddon
I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only… — Shannon Hale
Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat. — Albert Einstein
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this. — Douglas Adams
Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat. — Franny Billingsley
I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major… — Bob Dylan
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to… — Donald Miller
I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His… — Katherine Dunn
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find… — Wendelin Van Draanen
Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and… — Jeanette Winterson
Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl. — Augusten Burroughs
9p.m. My flat. Feel very strange and empty. Is all very well thinking everything is going to be different when you come back but then… — Helen Fielding
The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the… — Dave Barry
And she was good to me: strong, fun, and fiercely loyal. And if I didn't have many other friends because of her-most girls were intimidated… — Sarah Dessen
It's funny how strangers can pass in front of you every day and all you see is a flat shadow, a vague outline, not noticing… — Gregory Galloway
What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise… — Margaret Atwood
Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of… — Karen Joy Fowler
...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you… — Brent Weeks

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