Flats Quotes - Page 11

• I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying.

  Michael Bond

  Paris, Flying, Civilised

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• You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen, or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

  Beau Willimon

  Brain, Wire, Shifting

  "‘Ides Of March’ Screenwriter Beau Willimon Talks Political Vs. Oscar Campaigns & Why George Clooney Deserved More Oscar Nods". Interview with Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. February 25, 2012.

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• If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Earth, Columbus

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• As a dream comes true, it falls flat.

  Mason Cooley

  Dream, Fall, Dreams Come True

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• Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.

  Mason Cooley

  True Or False, Aphorism

  "City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1987.

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• If I wanted to get my arms as big as I could possibly get them, I would probably do around 20 sets of 4 exercises and 5 sets each for the triceps and 20 sets for the biceps per workout 3 times a week. That would be around 60 sets of triceps and 60 sets of biceps work per week. I would keep the reps between 6 and 8 and I would do all basic movements where I'd handle as heavy a weight as possible. I'd consume nutritious food that had calories in and just flat out eat!

  Bill Pearl

  Workout, Exercise, Biceps

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• The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrinefor a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction.

  Henry Adams

  Rome, Years, History

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1343, Open Road Media

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• The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Principles, Social, Graves

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• We may divide characters into flat and round.

  E. M. Forster

  Character, Literature, May

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.103, RosettaBooks

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• On my face extended flat
  I was walloped with a cat
  For listening at the key-hole of the door.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Cat, Keys, Doors

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• Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down -- and they will -- even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

  Phil McGraw

  Running, Fall, Trying

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• Frank W. Woolworth once told me that the turning-point in his career did not come until he was thrown flat on his back by illness. He was sure that his business would go to pieces during his long, enforced absence. Instead, he discovered that he had in his employ men who could overcome difficulties when given power to exercise initiative. After that Woolworth left many problems and difficulties to be solved by subordinates and turned his attention to big things.

  B. C. Forbes

  Exercise, Men, Careers

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• The man of frank and strong prejudices, far from being a political and social menace and an obstacle in the path of progress, is often a benign character and helpful citizen. The chance is far greater, furthermore, that he will be more creative than the man who can never come to more than a few gingerly held conclusions, or who thinks that all ideas should be received with equal hospitality. There is such a thing as being so broad you are flat.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Strong, Character, Men

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• Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Teacher, Academic Freedom, Holocaust

  "More Creationism Sneaks Into Public Schools". Personal blog, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. April 29, 2013.

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• There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run through a set of vanities, in the declension of his age, he knows not what to do with himself, if he cannot think; he saunters about from one dull business to another, to wear out time; and hath no reason to value Life but because he is afraid of death.

  Gilbert Burnet

  Running, Men, Thinking

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• I took a small flat for myself and the children ... My husband took a room in a clean rooming house within easy walking distance of his office. ... It is wonderful sometimes to be alone in the night and just know that someone loves you. In other moods you must have that lover in your arms. Marriage under two roofs makes room for moods.

  Crystal Eastman

  Marriage, Children, Husband

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press

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• The importance of a lost romantic vision should not be underestimated. In such a vision is power as well as joy. In it is meaning.Life is flat, barren, zestless, if one can find one's lost vision nowhere.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Romantic, Loss, Power

  Sarah-Patton Boyle, Jennifer Lynn Ritterhouse (1962). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition”, p.169, University of Virginia Press

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• Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object.

  William Shakespeare

  Spirit, Pardon, Objects

  William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan, Marina Kastan (2000). “William Shakespeare”, p.32, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Strong, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, Women

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• We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.

  Fergus Henderson

  Country, Wife, House

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• The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The effect of the three-dimensionality is phenomenal. It's a real drama which the artists of the time understood, and they used it for the drama of their paintings.

  Werner Herzog

  Wall, Real, Drama

  "'The Birth of the Modern Human Soul'". Interview with David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. February 16, 2011.

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• I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.

  Werner Herzog

  Giving, Imagination, Perspective

  "Werner Herzog's Cave Painting Documentary 'The Birth of the Modern Human Soul'". Interview with David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. February 16, 2011.

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• Maybe it's good a thing that people see me this way [in the documentary film]. They expect to see me with the high heels, the glamour looks, but now they will see me running through an airport with flat shoes! Also, they'll discover that stylists with "names" are in general nicer, sweeter, have a heart, have great relationships with family and friends, and that's important. It shows that people in fashion aren't just freaks.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Running, Fashion, Heart

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You get the most 3D effect when it starts about three to four seconds, that's when it starts feeling 3D. And then what you do, quick shots are always flat.

  Michael Bay

  Feelings, Three, Four

  Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. June 17, 2014.

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