Flats Quotes - Page 28

• Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.

  Russell Baker

  Empty Mind, People, Brain

  Russell Baker (1991). “There's a Country in My Cellar”, Avon Books

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• Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you...

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Life, Mother, Experience

  "Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists" edited by Ken Wilber, 1984.

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• [On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

  Mark Twain

  Jugs, Dutch, Milk

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• Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.

  Aristotle

  Moving, Cutting, Science

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• Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every time I've tried to make stuff up it just kind of falls flat. So the majority of my work is something that happened to me, I saw happen to someone else, or a friend of mine told me happened. There is a certain amount of theatrical and poetic license. People are supposed to like it, that's why you're doing it. It's supposed to be fun. It's not brain surgery, it's heart surgery. They're just songs.

  Guy Clark

  Song, Fun, Fall

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• The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred dollars. But Lonnie Slocum assured her the Martin was a good investment, even if she never learned to play it better than an acid head who was into heavy metal.

  Dan Jenkins

  Music, Play, Luxury

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• Every now and then I'll get seduced by the idea of money, and I'll take a stab at that...and I fall flat on my ass. I've never written a lasting song with that mindset. It doesn't work.

  Rodney Crowell

  Song, Fall, Writing

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• Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the death angel. It is what I was this fall, and what I never want to be again. The pouting disconsolate mouth, the flat, bored, numb, expressionless eyes: symptoms of the foul decay within.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Fall, Eye

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.155, Anchor

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• About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.

  Deke Slayton

  Running, Climbing, Going Away

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• My mum told me always to wear heels. If I'm not wearing heels, she says, 'What? You're in flats?' So whenever I see her, I make sure I have heels with me.

  Julia Restoin Roitfeld

  Mum, Heels, Ifs

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• When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.

  Susan Minot

  Believe, Moving, Eye

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• I may paint flat, but I don't think flat.

  Ralph Fasanella

  Thinking, May, Paint

  Patrick Watson, Ralph Fasanella (1974). “Fasanella's City: The Paintings of Ralph Fasanella with the Story of His Life and Art”

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• I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them.

  Mariah Carey

  Shoes, Feet, I Can

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• I never thought I would ever say this . . . but I'm wearing flats today.

  Kim Kardashian

  Today

  Twitter post from Mar 25, 2013

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• If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception.

  Richard Serra

  Deception, Sculpture, Planes

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• I was this flat-chested, big-footed, lanky thing.

  Lauren Bacall

  Bigs

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

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• French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.

  Eva Green

  Play, Sound

  "Eva Green interview: Playing evil". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011.

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• It's tough, acting. You have to walk two lines of a tightrope. There's the all-consuming fear of failure: I'm about to fall flat on my face. There's that and there's also confidence - you have to be confident in order to try things - and they fight each other all the time.

  Jessica Chastain

  Fall, Fighting, Order

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

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• A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness.

  David Foster

  Team, Boys, Ideas

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• That sound in tune to you?.. Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told us you should do that. Maybe I got it from her. She said singers when they grow old have a tendency to go flat. So if you sing sharp as a young person, as you get older and go flat, you'll be in tune. In other words, it's never thought good to be flat. It means you can't get to the tone.

  Charles Mingus

  Teacher, Mean, Singing

  "Mingus/Mingus: Two Memoirs". Book by Janet Coleman and Al Youn, 1989.

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• Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.

  Werner Herzog

  Eye, Animal, Stupidity

  "Signs of Life". DVD Audio Commentary, 2005.

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• The next time you see John Stossel or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, these flat-Earthers, these corporate toadies, lying to you, lying to the American public, and telling you that global warming doesn't exist. You send an e-mail to their advertisers and tell them that you're not going to buy their products anymore.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Lying, Email, Toady

  "Live Earth Disappoints With Everything But Shrill Rhetoric". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. July 9, 2007.

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• Can you imagine wot it was like. All the girls gettin' luvly figgers and me stayin' flat as a pancake? It was no fun, I tell you.

  Twiggy

  Girl, Fun, Pancakes

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• I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.

  Brian May

  Spring, Knitting Needles, Interesting

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• Almost every day, someone asks if I ever flat iron my hair. I say, 'No, because I'm afraid it wouldn't look good and wouldn't come back curly.'

  Carrot Top

  Hair, Iron, Looks

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