Flats Quotes - Page 36

• A general flat minimum-wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly wise method of achieving the end. I know much better methods of providing a minimum for everybody. But once you turn from laying down a general minimum for all industry to decreeing particular and different minimum for different industries, then, of course, you make the price mechanism inoperative, because it is no longer the price mechanism which will guide people between industries and trades.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Wise, Thinking, Law

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• No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional , flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into.

  Anne Lamott

  Book, Mean, Night

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• It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.

  Ray Kroc

  Achievement, Walks

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.161, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group that almost singlehandedly brought rock up to a level of jazz-like sophistication and virtuosity, introducing it as a medium worthy of the soloist's art. Oral histories can be tricky things: either penetrating, delivering information and backstories that get to the heart of how timeless music was made. Or too often, they lie flat on the page, a random retelling of repeated facts and reheated yarns. I'm happy to say that Paul's is in that first category.

  Ashley Kahn

  Art, Lying, Rocks

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• I never wore flats: The higher the shoe, the better.

  Patti Hansen

  Shoes, Higher

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Relief, Body, Firsts

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• You’re not going to learn anything if you’re not prepared to go flat, so I’m very happy to go flat.

  Dylan Moran

  Very Happy, Prepared, Ifs

  "Dylan Moran Makes Sentences of Things". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 13, 2013.

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• I scribbled four words down in my notebook: 'The world is flat.

  Nandan Nilekani

  Notebook, World, Four

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• We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

  J. B. Priestley

  Heart, Men, House

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• I am up and about when I am ill, and in the most appalling weather. I am on horseback when other men would be flat out on their beds, complaining. We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills.

  Frederick The Great

  Military, Men, Weather

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• By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

  Sadie Frost

  Self, Modeling, Sufficient

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

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• The fats dented the flats.

  Jerry Lawler

  Funny, Wwe, Fats

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• I guess it's like trying to put through the flat tax, which is probably my favorite one of all.... if we did pass it, all of a sudden, what do you have? You have the whole tax system run by a little old lady on a home computer, doing the work of all these thousands of bureaucrats and accountants. Passing that would be amazing, wouldn't it?

  Clint Eastwood

  Running, Home, Trying

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• Ah, if only the best place for storing embryonic stem cells was Yucca Flat.

  James Lileks

  Cells, Politics, Best Place

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• The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

  Richard Allen Epstein

  Strong, Rights, Use

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• Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Mean, Simple

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• Sometimes God has to put us flat on our back before we are looking up to Him.

  Jack Graham

  Sometimes

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• Advice to rock gods: drugwise, stick to Ibuprofen, decaf lattes, and pale Pilsners ... If your stomach is not a flat slab, please leave your shirt on while performing ... If your girlfriend asks you to choose between her and your music, sell your instruments immediately - especially if you're a drummer ... Finally, go easy on the supermodels, don't forget to tune, and remember: a tiny bit of dry ice and lasers goes a long way. Ditto with tattoos.

  Ian Shoales

  Tattoo, Girlfriend, Rocks

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• He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wine, Mouths, Taste

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.838, Delphi Classics

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• That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Soldier, Captains, Measure For Measure

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 130

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• I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat.

  Fergie

  Fashion, Weekend, Shoes

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• It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, -- some one who had the grandeur to say his say. I believe it was Magellan who said, The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church. On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Faith, Believe, Blessed

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “The Gods, and Other Lectures”, p.171

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• How can we describe the most exalted experience of our physical lives [sex], as if-jack, wrench, hubcap, and nuts-we were describing the changing of a flat tire?

  John Cheever

  Sex, Nuts, Tire

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

  Joan Didion

  Children, Way, Interest

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• I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.

  Julian Barnes

  Grief, Fall, Writing

  "Julian Barnes: The sense of another ending". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2013.

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