Flattened Quotes

33 quotes by 33 authors

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an… — Thomas Watson, Jr.
What a shock that a guy who makes $2 million a week behaves exactly like I would with $2 million a week. As far as… — Jim Norton
In the course of the history of natural science, it always happens that profound or true thoughts or true facts were always either distorted or… — Wilhelm Reich
I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face… — Chuck Close
I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or… — Thomas Friedman
Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology,… — John Zerzan
Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled.… — Tove Jansson
Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened. — Anne Tyler
I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out. — Jack Dee
It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a… — Susanna Kaysen
If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164… — Abba Eban
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized… — Charles Bukowski
There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I… — Philip K. Dick
I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's… — Margaret Atwood
Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching… — Joyce Carol Oates
The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail straight out. There he encountered… — Barbara Mertz
Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair… — Rick Riordan
She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You won't find Prim." At her name,… — Suzanne Collins
He took both of my hands, twisting to face me more fully on the flattened box beneath us, and again the colors in his irises… — Rachel Vincent
when you want something so desperately, you shake with the need for it. you tell yourself that you don't need more than one sip, because… — Jodi Picoult

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