Flats Quotes

• I can't concentrate in flats.

  Victoria Beckham

  Fashion, Shoes, I Can

  "'I Can't Concentrate in Flat Shoes,' Explains High-heel Addict Victoria Beckham". www.dailymail.co.uk. May 15, 2008.

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• What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Autumn, Hair

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations”, p.67, tredition

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• Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces.

  Colin Neenan

  Life, Beauty, Vision

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• 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

  Soul, Religion, World

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.198, Courier Corporation

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• Rats They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles. Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.

  Robert Browning

  Dog, Baby, Cat

  'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' (1842) st. 2

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• When people come and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Art, Motivation, Fall

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• The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson

  Age, World, Earth

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1927). “The Standardization of Error”, New York : W.W. Norton

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• Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Fun, Looks, Television

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• As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.

  Corrine Brown

  Fighting, Cbc, White

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• Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines.

  Claude McKay

  Clothes, Shining, Lines

  Claude McKay (1953). “Selected poems”

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• Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.

  Eddy Arnold

  Fall, Faces, Your Face

  Eddy Arnold (1969). “It's a Long Way from Chester County”

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• In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.

  Eric Cantor

  Perfect, World, Economy

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• Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

  Helen Dunmore

  Book, Doors, Mourning

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• I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.

  David Ginola

  Settling, Found, Offers

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• The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented.

  Edward Irving

  Party, Scotland, Church

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• When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.

  Frank Stella

  Technique, Meat, Thrill

  Stephanie Rosenthal, Ad Reinhardt, Haus der Kunst München, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella (2006). “Black paintings”

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• I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

  Mills Lane

  Thinking, Would Be, Gone

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• I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Talking, Voice

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• American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

  Henry Adams

  America, Water, Society

  Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton

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• 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

  Real, Use, Said

  "Jimmy Buffett enjoying career renaissance". www.today.com. October 6, 2004.

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• I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

  Simon Pegg

  Lying, Imagination, Zombie

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, Fall

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

  Will Rogers

  Military, War, Fall

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.

  William Shatner

  Hate, Flying, Guts

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• A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Love, Friendly, Amusement

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