Flats Quotes - Page 19

• I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.

  Angela Carter

  Flower, Heart, Tissue Paper

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• Are you hurting anywhere else?" I asked, feeling so emotionally raw after the long night we'd had. He caught my wrist and pulled my hand down to press flat over his heart. "Here." "So am I." He kissed my fingertips, then linked our hands and led me.

  Sylvia Day

  Hurt, Heart, Night

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• This is a private home." "And?" "And I can't enter without an invitation." She jerked her head up. "You're kidding me?" "No." "You don't live in a crypt and you can't turn into a bat, but you have to have an invitation to enter a house?" Abby hissed. A reluctant amusement softened the flat eyes. "You wanted me to be vampirish." "Not when it's inconvenient.

  Alexandra Ivy

  Home, Eye, House

  Alexandra Ivy (2012). “When Darkness Comes”, p.225, Zebra Books

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• Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some way to go. Just to be safe, she told herself. Still, it was nice the way her pelvic bones rose like sharp hills on either side of her stomach. I love bones. Bones are beautiful.

  Steven Levenkron

  Beautiful, Nice, Rose

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• Renata reached out for the gun nearest to her and a full magazine of rounds. She had the weapon loaded, locked and ready for action in three seconds flat. Niko had never seen anything sexier in his life.

  Tina St. John

  Gun, Three, Magazines

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• What do you mean?” Leslie’s voice was cool, as if she questioned witches who were flat on their backs being threatened by werewolves every day.

  Patricia Briggs

  Mean, Voice, Witch

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.90, Penguin

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• He raised his brows. "You're drunk." "Am not!" He gave me a bland look. "A drunk's famous last words before they fall flat on their face.

  J. Lynn

  Fall, Drunk, Looks

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• She'd never imagined it like this-when she thought of someone (a woman like herself)losing her mind, she'd imagined shrieks and wails, hallucinations; but at that moment it had seemed clear that there was another way, far quieter; a way that was numb and hopeless, flat, so much so that an emotion as strong as sorrow would have been a relief.

  Michael Cunningham

  Strong, Mind, Sorrow

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• The first pair Opal and Amber are, Agate sings in B flat, the wolf avatar, A duet-solutio! - with Aquamarine. Mighty Emerald next, with the lovely Citrine. Number Eight is digestio, her stand is Jade fine. E major's the key of the Black Tourmaline, Sapphire sings in F major, and bright is her sheen. Then almost at once comes Diamond alone, Whose sign of the lion as Leo is known. Projectio! Time flows on, both present and past. Ruby red is the first and is also the last.

  Kerstin Gier

  Past, Keys, Eight

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• If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over again.

  Greg Egan

  Fall, Gazing, Faces

  Greg Egan (2010). “Zendegi”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Because I was flat out wrong
  I'm on my knees
  Begging that you
  Will forgive me, please

  John Walter Bratton

  Sorry, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . . He was naturally learn'd; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. . . . He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating in to clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some occasion is presented to him.

  John Dryden

  Book, Men, Soul

  'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668) on Shakespeare

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• What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped and shrunken? Is it finite, or is it infinite? Which of the following does space resemble more: (a) a sheet of paper, (b) an endless desert, (c) a soap bubble, (d) a doughnut, (e) an Escher drawing, (f) an ice cream cone, (g) the branches of a tree, or (h) a human body?

  Rudy Rucker

  Science, Drawing, Space

  Rudy von Bitter Rucker, Rudy Rucker (1985). “The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers. They are nudging close to having the moral credibility of Holocaust deniers.

  Johann Hari

  Holocaust, Intellectual, Climate

  "The Shame of the Climate-change Deniers". www.independent.co.uk. April 24, 2005.

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• I'd share a pic if the digital camera battery wasn't as flat as 17th century Earth.

  Simon Haynes

  Technology, Cameras, Batteries

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• You know the world must be flat, because when people leave town they never come back.

  Hal Ketchum

  People, World, Towns

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• Never tell. Not if you love your wife...In fact, if your old lady walks in on you deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay On Top Of Me Or I'll Die.' " I didn't know what I was goin' to do.

  Lenny Bruce

  Marriage, Believe, Love You

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• Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for it takes up more place in the mind than it does in bed. Outside of that setting it falls flat into one-dimensional fiction.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Love, Fall, Passion

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• The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth.

  Matt Taibbi

  Discovery, Two, History

  "A sense of adventure" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2005.

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• If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.

  Kanye West

  Reading, Apology, Waiting

  "Kanye West New York Times Interview: Rapper Takes Back Taylor Swift Apology, Professes Love For Kim Kardashian", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2013.

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• The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.

  Margaret Millar

  Nice, Fall, Simple

  Margaret Millar (2016). “Beyond This Point Are Monsters”, p.111, Soho Press

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• Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.

  Victor Borge

  Three, Moved

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• You're kind of a smart ass when you're not flat on your face.

  Josh Lanyon

  Smart, Faces, Kind

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• I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world...plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.

  Edward Tufte

  Dog, Real, Book

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• It is hard for a flat thing to understand a round one.

  Arthur Dove

  Rounds, Hard

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