Flats Quotes - Page 15

• For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

  Michel Eugene Chevreul

  Painting, Methodology, Painter

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• A question: when is a bed not a bed? When it is angled lie-flat. My back hurts, my legs ache and my clothes are all rumpled - and all because the airline, which claimed to have a bed, actually offered up a torture machine which I prefer to call a slide.

  Richard Quest

  Hurt, Lying, Clothes

  Richard Quest's blog for CNN, August 21, 2007.

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• I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "You're great." We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.

  John Lennon

  Music, Clever, Fun

  "The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 120), 2000.

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• Many books on communication are strong on theory but impractical on application. Marshall Rosenberg's instant classic is the stand-out exception. It is clear and compelling in its logic and flat-out inspiring in its inviting exposition of usable techniques and strategies. If this book is read by enough people, the world will transform.

  Hugh Prather

  Strong, Book, Communication

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• But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads as they fly and their huge wings alternately gliding and flapping as they maneuver through the trees. Athena's owl of wisdom and Merlin's companion, Archimedes, were screech owls surely, not this bird with the glassy gaze, restless on the bough, nothing but blood on its mind.

  Mary Oliver

  Blood, Wings, Bird

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays”, p.22, Beacon Press

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• You've got to bring the emotion, and you have to understand that you can't touch other people if you're not touched. You can't move other people if you're not moved. So if you're just giving some frickin talk you've memorized over and over again, you're going to have a flat affect. If you've just got a bunch of visuals on the screen that are leading your talk, hang up your shoes and get the hell out of there.

  Tony Robbins

  Moving, Shoes, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You’re three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

  Mary Karr

  Moving, Kids, Feet

  "Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No. 1". Interview with Amanda Fortini, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.

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• I don't wear heels. I'm all about flats from Chanel and wedges. I love my Gucci wedge boots.

  Jourdan Dunn

  Boots, Gucci, Wedges

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• General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable.

  Tucker Max

  Stupid, People, Giving

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• I'm not a structured writer. I have the carpet-laying theory which is you put it out there until there is a lump and you keep pushing the lump across the floor until the whole thing just lies flat. Every time you write there is going to be a bulge, something doesn't work and you have to find your way to get it to the other end.

  Bruce Joel Rubin

  Lying, Writing, Way

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• I am not a multimillionaire. I dont own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.

  Ferran Adria

  Simple, Squares, Ferrari

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• A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are desperate to live, and the chances we miss, it's a psychological dazzler. Truly, one of my favorite books of this year-or any year.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Book, Heart, Years

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• There are also flat periods in life which may well be the periods during which-before new lessons come- the past lessons of life are allowed to seep, quietly and deeply, into the marrow of the soul. These outwardly flat periods, when enduring well may not seem very purposeful,, are probably the times when needed attitudinal alignments are quietly occurring.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life Lesson, Past, Soul

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• Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious; I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure; with him it has been one of splendid success.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Ambition, Two, Race

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• Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.

  Dorothy Parker

  Dirty, Mean, Ivory

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• Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.

  Ronald Reagan

  Life, Family, Success

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• Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Reality, Light, Engagement

  Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books

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• You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen, or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

  Beau Willimon

  Brain, Wire, Shifting

  "‘Ides Of March’ Screenwriter Beau Willimon Talks Political Vs. Oscar Campaigns & Why George Clooney Deserved More Oscar Nods". Interview with Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. February 25, 2012.

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• If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Earth, Columbus

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• Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.

  Mason Cooley

  True Or False, Aphorism

  "City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1987.

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• If I wanted to get my arms as big as I could possibly get them, I would probably do around 20 sets of 4 exercises and 5 sets each for the triceps and 20 sets for the biceps per workout 3 times a week. That would be around 60 sets of triceps and 60 sets of biceps work per week. I would keep the reps between 6 and 8 and I would do all basic movements where I'd handle as heavy a weight as possible. I'd consume nutritious food that had calories in and just flat out eat!

  Bill Pearl

  Workout, Exercise, Biceps

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• The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Principles, Social, Graves

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• We may divide characters into flat and round.

  E. M. Forster

  Character, Literature, May

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.103, RosettaBooks

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• Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down -- and they will -- even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

  Phil McGraw

  Running, Fall, Trying

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• Frank W. Woolworth once told me that the turning-point in his career did not come until he was thrown flat on his back by illness. He was sure that his business would go to pieces during his long, enforced absence. Instead, he discovered that he had in his employ men who could overcome difficulties when given power to exercise initiative. After that Woolworth left many problems and difficulties to be solved by subordinates and turned his attention to big things.

  B. C. Forbes

  Exercise, Men, Careers

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