Flats Quotes - Page 9

• Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction.

  Cyril Connolly

  Running, Reality, Wind

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight.

  Steve Martin

  Phones, Creating, Acting

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• I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.

  Bibhu Mohapatra

  Mom, Home, Grandmother

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• I want evangelicals to be known not for what they're against, but what they're for. Yes, there are some things that I believe are flat out wrong. There is no doubt about it, and I'm not wishy-washy about it. But my agenda is bigger than simply those issues. My agenda is to be as big as the agenda of Jesus.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Believe, Issues

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.

  Billy Cannon

  Struggle, Survival, Rolling

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• It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

  Jeffrey Burton Russell

  Civilization, Earth, Firsts

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• Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.

  Cesare Pavese

  Suicide, Fall, Way

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.36, Transaction Publishers

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• I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.

  Billie Piper

  Children, Ambitious, Want

  "Piper dreams" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2008.

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• But there is always creative destruction in markets: there are always new winners taking the place of those that are. So if you only look at the market's surface, it may appear flat, but there's always huge turbulence taking place within.

  Kerr Neilson

  Creative, Looks, May

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• The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

  Jonathan Swift

  Running, Style, Term

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• Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a very fine poet, or else that it was written by someone who is not a poet at all. In the case of the former, the lines, the images, though they are inherent in each other, leap up and give one this shock of delight. In the case of the latter, they lie flat on the page, never having lived.

  Edith Sitwell

  Lying, Book, Giving

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• Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Running, Men, Hands

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.458

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• The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Rivers, People

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Sexing The Cherry”, p.123, Random House

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• Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.

  Helen Rowland

  Love Is, Dinner, Appetite

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Dull, Cunning

  Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”, p.254

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• New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Writing, Circles, Fire

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

  Edna Ferber

  Men, Flavor, Yeast

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• I try to surf everyday or at least go for a walk on the beach if the waves are flat. The more I travel, the more I appreciate where I live and the ocean.

  Jon Foreman

  Beach, Ocean, Appreciate

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• 0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.

  Philip Massinger

  Summer, Adversity, Autumn

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• When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

  Margaret Deland

  Bombshells, Letters, Frail

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.57, Wildside Press LLC

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• Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.

  Stevie Smith

  People, May, Fancy

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• ... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a two-dimensional flat surface which acts as a mute, and enforces silence on them.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Two, Silence, Three

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.

  Han Suyin

  Wall, Ignorance, Past

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• Usually, I wear tennis shoes because my feet are flat, and it hurts to wear anything other than shoes that are cushiony.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Hurt, Shoes, Feet

  "Ellen The Generous". Interview with Patricia Marx, www.elle.com. October 12, 2007.

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• I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
  I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing
  Each time I find myself flat on my face
  I pick myself up and get back in the race

  Frank Sinatra

  Kings, Race, Pirate

  Song: That's Life, Album: That's Life

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