Flats Quotes - Page 13

• Sometimes you just can't be afraid to wear a different hat. If Columbus had complied, this whole world might still be flat.

  Garth Brooks

  Different, World, Might

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• The supernatural is being swept out of the universe in the flood of new knowledge of what is natural. It will soon be as impossible for an intelligent, educated man or woman to believe in a god as it is now to believe that earth is flat, that flies can be spontaneously generated, that disease is a divine punishment, or that death is always due to witchcraft.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Intelligent, Men

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• Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?

  W. S. Gilbert

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.607, Oxford University Press

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• I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.

  Nate Berkus

  Thinking, Guy, Months

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• Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Eye, Body, Faces

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• If you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Texas, Forever, Riding

  "Katee Sackhoff Talks ACTING OUTLAWS with Tricia Helfer, RIDDICK and Why It’s Rated R, the All-Female EXPENDABLES Movie, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 21, 2012.

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• Even dramatically how you position some person, the depth, the existence [in 3D] is different than a flat image even though by itself it has depth, we create the illusion of depth. For example, some of the shots I have to stay closer to the actor because it's a young actor, I like it closer for some of the shots. I watch 2D scenes next to the camera, then when I go back to my station and watch it in 3D I have to go back and reduce his acting, he has to shrink a little bit because he peeks out more.

  Ang Lee

  Acting, Actors, Littles

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• 2D looks so flat. Well, it is, of course, it's flat. But 3D isn't. And for an adventure story that takes you into a long-distant, fictional world, it's ideal, I think.

  Ian Mckellen

  Adventure, Thinking, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• Delhi is excellent. Everything looks so beautiful. In Bombay, we don't have such beautiful roads, spacious places, and you cannot have the luxury of having houses and bungalows. You have to live in little pokey flats and cost of living is extremely high in Mumbai. Delhi has a lot that people keep preserving... a lot of which is what Delhi is about.

  Bipasha Basu

  Beautiful, Cost Of Living, Luxury

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• As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies.

  Terry Pratchett

  Discworld, Planets, Knows

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2012). “Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion . . . So Far”, p.126, Hachette UK

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• The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

  Bill Gates

  Needs, World, Hierarchy

  "Bill Gates says putting worldwide internet access before malaria research is 'a joke'" by Jacob Kastrenakes, www.theverge.com. November 1, 2013.

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• Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, No, you got it wrong! The world is round. You're flat! Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Queens, World, Dinner

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• I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

  David Hockney

  Photograph, Said, Surface

  Lawrence Weschler, David Hockney, Getty Foundation (2008). “True to life: twenty-five years of conversations with David Hockney”, Univ of California Pr

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• You might be a redneck if your momma calls you over to help, cause she has a flat tire on her house.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, House, Causes

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• Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.

  Barbara Kruger

  Real, Technology, Made

  Barbara Kruger (1994). “Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances”, p.220, MIT Press

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• If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns... You're not only reducing the sculpture to a different scale for the purposes of consumption, but you're denying the real content of the work.

  Richard Serra

  Real, Passing On, Different

  Richard Serra, Clara Weyergraf-Serra (1980). “Richard Serra, Interviews, Etc., 1970-1980”, p.170, Hudson River Museum

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• Recently started flat ironing my ball hair. Come on ladies, you know how it is; if you have curly hair you just want straight hair.

  Daniel Tosh

  Curly Hair, Balls, Want

  Song: Two, Album: Happy Thoughts, 2011

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• No matter how flat you make your pancakes, it still has two sides.

  Daniel Tosh

  Two Sides, Matter, Pancakes

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• Iowa's the worst. Iowa's just nothing, just flat as far as you can see. It's the only state in the country where you can stand on your front porch and actually watch your dog run away for three days.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Running, Country, Dog

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• Last time I had a flat tire, I pulled my truck into one of those side-of-the-road gas stations. The attendant walks out, looks at my truck, looks at me, and I swear he said, Tire go flat? I couldn't resist. Said, Nope. I was driving around and those other three just swelled right up on me. Here's your sign.

  Bill Engvall

  Lasts, Sides, Gas Stations

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Mar 12, 2013

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• My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had a repeating bass line in D-flat that was very difficult for me to finger using my self-taught technique. I spent one morning figuring out an alternate fingering, and that started me on the way to learning a better use of the fingerboard.

  Bill Crow

  Song, Morning, Reading

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• The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.

  Danny Barker

  New Orleans, Play, Two

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• I think we'll say flat is the new growth in the short term.

  Philip Green

  Thinking, Growth, Term

  "Politics Live blog" with Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com.

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• Hair is an issue for most women, and after washing, blow-drying, flat-ironing, curling, braiding, twisting and spending the time and money on it, who wants to mess it up by sweating and having to do it all over again?

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Blow, Hair, Issues

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• And thou, all-shaking thunder,
  Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
  Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once
  That makes ingrateful man!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Vaunt, Cracks

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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