Flats Quotes
677 Flats quotes by 567 unique authors
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Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people…
— Wilbur Smith
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
— Zadie Smith
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I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on…
— Steven Spielberg
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My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's…
— Sylvester Stallone
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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
— Ben Stein
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
— James Thurber
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The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool…
— Steve Vai
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I love heels, I'm telling you. When I walk in flats, I get knee pain.
— Sofia Vergara
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I used to attract a lot of feeders. I'd be quite happy to be locked in someone's flat and fed liquidised burgers.
— Johnny Vegas
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I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.
— Allen West
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I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit…
— Vivienne Westwood
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The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it,…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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My dad sent Frank Sinatra a dollar bill to autograph, and when it came back, signed, he had it framed: it was always up on…
— Robbie Williams
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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because…
— George Edward Woodberry
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The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. It wasn’t…
— Douglas Adams
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Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat,…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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But there was not a moment when she did not see Carol in her mind, and all she saw, she seemed to see through Carol.…
— Patricia Highsmith
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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