Flats Quotes - Page 2

• Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

  Ben Stein

  Motivational, Stars, Dirty

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• You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

  James Thurber

  Inspirational, Funny, Fall

  New Yorker 29 Apr. 1939 "The Bear Who Let It Alone"

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• I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

  Allen West

  Business, Support, Progressive

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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, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Lakes, Sky, White

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (200?). “The little house treasury”

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• I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

  Peggy Noonan

  Thinking, Miracle, World

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat

  Holly Hunter

  Lying, Littles, Stuff

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• I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.

  Albert Finney

  Mean, Mirrors, Clothes

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• I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.

  Donald Pleasence

  Halloween, Choices, Salary

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• Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Animal, Men

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• A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

  Rex Stout

  Writing, Character, Born

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• Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

  David Lynch

  Sex, Powerful, Doorways

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

  Maurice Denis

  Horse, Order, Battle

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• A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

  Richie Benaud

  Pieces, Earth, Building

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

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• I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Portraits, Faces

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• Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Stars, Light, Color

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• This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.

  Jeri Ryan

  Movie, New Day, Actors

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face.

  Paul Weyrich

  Fall, News, Faces

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• If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.

  James Forrestal

  War, Lying, Europe

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• I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

  Christian, Teaching, Liberty

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• I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.

  Sadie Frost

  Shoes, Icy, Because I Can

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

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• They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly.

  Rick Barry

  Technique, Balls, Ridiculous

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• I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Painting, Deny, Surface

  Julia Brown, Helen Frankenthaler, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1998). “After Mountains and Sea: Frankenthaler 1956-1959”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

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• It is a law of nature that everything run by the government will get more expensive and worse over time. Everything run by the private sector will get better and cheaper over time. The fact that [Obamacare] starts this badly does not bode well....We want healthcare run on the same system that gave us cell phones, flat screens, Jerry Garcia chia pets. Everything you submit to the free market...keeps getting better and better.

  Ann Coulter

  Running, Money, Party

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• Everybody has a home team: It's the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It's the people who, near or far, know everything that's wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you their secrets, who get themselves a glass of water without asking when they're at your house. These are the people who cry when you cry. These are your people, your middle-of-the-night, no-matter-what people.

  Shauna Niequist

  Team, Love You, Home

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• O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

  William Shakespeare

  God, Despair, Use

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

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