Flats Quotes - Page 12

• Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Always Trying, Society, Grind

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• If the earth were flat from east to west, the stars would rise as soon for westerners as for orientals, which is false. Also, if the earth were flat from north to south and vice versa, the stars which were always visible to anyone would continue to be so wherever he went, which is false. But it seems flat to human sight because it is so extensive.

  Ptolemy

  Stars, Sight, West

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• It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know. This, like other feedback systems, may lead to vicious circles and confusions if improperly managed, but self-awareness makes human experience resonant. It imparts that simultaneous "echo" to all that we think and feel as the box of a violin reverberates with the sound of the strings. It gives depth and volume to what would otherwise be shallow and flat.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Echoes, Self

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• The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can't be expected to be taken that seriously.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Taken, Men, Play

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• I was so flat I used to put Xs on my chest and write, 'You are here.' I wore angora sweaters just so the guys would have something to pet.

  Joan Rivers

  Writing, Sweaters, Guy

  "Joan Rivers' Birthday: Her Funniest Fashion Disses (PHOTOS)" by Lauren Leibowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2013.

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• My favorite place in L.A. is Manhattan Beach. It's an intimate, friendly little beachside city within a city-smaller than most of its neighbors, so it reminds me of a British seaside resort. If my three teenage sons are in town, we'll play some cricket on the flat, hard sand where the water breaks, just to really confuse the locals!

  Piers Morgan

  Beach, Teenage, Son

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• 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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• I hate my stomach. It's impossible to get it flat, and the area around my belly button drives me crazy.

  Carmen Electra

  Hate, Crazy, Buttons

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• Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

  Urs Fischer

  Relief, Add, Sculpture

  Interview with Gavin Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

  Chuck Berry

  Controversy

  Song: You Can't Catch Me

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• I was living in New York City and flat broke. My next door neighbor was an actor and he always seemed to be having more fun than I was. He convinced me to give acting a shot, but because of my shyness I was sure it would be a lost cause.

  Joe Flanigan

  New York, Fun, Doors

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• My hair is naturally curly, and in the 80's, even though I experimented with different lengths, I generally wore it curly. Since then, I've learned how to use a blow dryer and flat iron.

  Susanna Hoffs

  Blow, Hair, Iron

  "Truly Outrageous: The Bangles on Bangles". Interview with Susan Cernek, www.glamour.com. September 8, 2009.

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• When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.

  Andrej Pejic

  Paris, Casting, Rooms

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• I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty.

  Sarah Paulson

  Hair, Long, Booty

  "Sarah Paulson Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, Her Character’s Dark Story Arc, Returning for Season 3, TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS.

  Nicholas Stern

  Cancer, People, Smoking

  "Stern: Climate change deniers are 'flat-earthers'" by Sunny Hundal, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2009.

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• I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!

  Rachael Taylor

  Shoes, Flat Shoes, Heels

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

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• You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.

  Edmund Vance Cooke

  Lying, Failure, Fall

  Edmund Vance Cooke, “How DID You Die?”

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• I want to tell the story. Mostly, when you see rock movies, it has to be this over-the-top thing. I want to give people a Bret Michaels movie where they see that my life is a comedy of errors. I also want to show my fans how to get through the kind of troubles that would leave most people flat on the floor.

  Bret Michaels

  Errors, Rocks, People

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• If I am not working, I won't wear makeup and I will wear flats.

  Michelle Ryan

  Makeup, Ifs

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• The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury?

  Ezra Heywood

  Kings, Men, Thinking

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• You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is blank and flat and the whole ghastly business looks like what it is, senseless, speechless, issueless misery.

  Samuel Beckett

  Looks, Misery, Speechless

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously. Otherwise the photographs are merely about an idea or a concept-that stuff eventually falls flat for me-there must be something more, some emotional hook for it to really work for me.

  Todd Hido

  Photography, Fall, Emotional

  "A conversation with Todd Hido". Interview with Joerg Colberg, jmcolberg.com. June 18, 2007.

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• The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the reader’s eye, this will be misunderstood by most of that minority which does not wholly ignore it. In the interests, however, of the history and future of photography, that risk seems irrelevant, and this flat statement necessary.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Independent, Eye

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• Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Summer, Children, Mean

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• I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

  M. C. Escher

  Fun, Two, Example

  "On Being a Graphic Artist" by M. C. Escher, 1981.

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