Flats Quotes - Page 26

They flat their fifths, we drink ours.

Eddie Condon

Music, Jazz, Drink

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They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.

Dizzy Gillespie

Music, Dance, Long

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In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open - ended and no one can predict with certainty what may change in the future. The prospect that evolution by natural selection, at least as a broad mechanism, will be overthrown in the future is about as likely as the prospect of finding out some day that the Earth is really flat. Unfortunately, those who regard these scientific facts as a threat to faith have chosen to distort and misrepresent them to the public.

Victor J. Stenger

Religion, Atheism, Earth

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When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

Isaac Asimov

Atheist, Science, Epic

"The Relativity of Wrong". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1996.

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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

George Bernard Shaw

Believe, Science, Giving

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My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck.

David Nicholls

Holiday, Sea, Worry

"David Nicholls, the man who made a nation cry" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2011.

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Like squirrels, the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities - they flat out trust their skills, which is why we call this high-performance state of mind the "Trusting Mindset."

John Eliot

Business, Skills, Squirrels

John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.26, Diversion Books

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Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

Vince Lombardi

Teamwork, Business, Inspirational Football

Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art, Nature, Theory

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Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.

Carl Sandburg

Fall, Autumn, Wind

Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I didn't want to fall back. But I realized it was more important to make it to the end under my own power than to run flat out in the lead or in second and then run out of fuel with a lap to go.

Danica Patrick

Running, Fall, Athlete

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In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.

Henry Ward Beecher

Crush, Morning, Night

Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.43

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Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.

Carmen McRae

Inspirational, Music, Yeast

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My mother used to dress rather risqué when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, I thought it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.

Drew Barrymore

Mom, Mother, Kids

"The Tao Of Drew" by Alexandra Jacobs, www.elle.com. September 18, 2006.

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I've heard people say my swing's not perfect, and I know that. But golf's a natural sport, very sensitive. It's played a lot by feel. I don't care if my swing is too flat. If it works, I don't have to change it.

Sergio Garcia

Sports, Golf, Swings

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I'm a wealthy man now. I've got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy. If somebody skates to earn money, I don't care. I skate for the people. Besides, it's pleasant to supply Russia with gold medals.

Evgeni Plushenko

Bad Ass, Men, Russia

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For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

Ernie Pyle

Peace, War, Black

ERNIE PYLE (1944). “BRAVE MEN”

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As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.

Nan Fairbrother

Beauty, Real, Views

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You live during the match, and you have strong emotions, but you don't want to get too overexcited. My body's totally flat now. I cannot move anymore. I'm totally exhausted, just because of the tension out there.

Roger Federer

Sports, Strong, Moving

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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

John Maynard Keynes

Death, Running, Ocean

1923 A Tract on Monetary Reform.

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There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.

Harvey Fierstein

Queens, Gay, Things In Life

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Stuart Wilde

Money, Roots, Evil

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I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I could use. ... [The early efforts were] worked out almost wholly on top of my flat topped writing desk and with teacups, glasses, bottles and reagents I made myself.

George Washington Carver

Writing, Science, Glasses

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To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry.

Alexander Calder

Art, Moving, People

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I can't concentrate in flats. I could go to the gym if I wore flats, I'd love to go to the gym, but I just can't get my head around the footwear.

Victoria Beckham

Fashion, Footwear, Gym

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