Top 390 Flat Quotes

I like long floaty clothes that don’t restrict me, and I live in flat boots.

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

My flat is a bit like an oriental bazaar. It’s filled with the oddest objects from all my travels, and you can’t really move in it. I love collecting antiques and often spend weekends driving around bric-a-brac markets.

Besides helping you to form a beautiful flat tummy, strong abdominal muscles will improve your balance and coordination as well as help you perform other types of exercise with greater ease.

I’m quite British; I’ve got big, flat feet, and I can’t wear heels. I’ve got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.

The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest.

My hair is very limp. I have to put stuff in it so it’s not as flat on my head.

I could jump, I was quick, I could catch and all those types of things, but when it came to just flat out speed, that’s something I had to work really hard at.

There’s always that moment on every movie where you just go, ‘Okay, this is that moment. I’m about to potentially fall flat on my face, and I might as well just dive in and see what happens.’

One thing about pushing yourself outside your comfort zone is that you’re going to make mistakes, and you’re going to fall flat on your face sometimes.

Often in my game as an actor, someone else pays for your travel and there’s nothing like being able to lie flat on a flight home from L.A.

I think I wrote the first draft of ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ in ’79. No one wanted to buy it. Nobody. I felt very strongly about it, so I stayed with it and kept paying my assistant and everything. At a certain point, I was literally flat broke.

I have a cup of tea in my hand at all times. I have about 10 a day. I don’t go for this hipster coffee nonsense. No flat whites for me!

My hair is like flat baby hair after I wash it, so it needs something in it to get that ‘day after’ texture.

I’m actually like a hole-in-the-wall coffee shop kind of guy. So I love the local shops that are kind of like one-off chains in Los Angeles, and I usually get a soy flat white.

Never have I got on better with my flatmates than when our landlord installed a dodgy deadlock and locked us out of our flat for a full Friday evening.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

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

SpaceX is a flat organization. Anyone gets to talk to anyone, and the best idea wins – even if it comes from an intern.

You do stand-up because you have to do it. If you’re doing it to become ‘famous,’ you’re wrong. If you’re doing it to become a millionaire, you’re doing it for the wrong reasons. In 2003, I was flat broke. I’d been doing stand-up for 14 years at that point. I loved it and just kept at it.

Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn’t much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.

Flat or uninteresting writing often signals something deeper that is being covered up.

I was living in my lovely little two-bedroom flat in north London… and suddenly, I couldn’t just walk down the street and buy a pint of milk.

I was determined not to sit around and watch my life deteriorate. I kept reaching out in hope and honesty that someone would find me. I never gave up hope. I fell flat on my face and got up again.

I must return to my old comrades of the Great War – to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders – to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme – for I am dead with them, and they live in me again.

I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat.

Romney Marsh remains one of the last great wildernesses of south-east England. Flat as a desert, and at times just as daunting, it is an odd, occasionally eerie wetland straddling the coastal borders of Kent and Sussex, rich in birds, local folklore and solitary medieval churches.

As a small-business owner who kept costs low and health care premiums flat for 10 years in my company, I know firsthand that transparency is the trick to reducing the skyrocketing health care costs that are burdening patients, employers, and our state, local, and federal governments.

When I had a side-by-side-style freezer, I kept everything – soup, ground meat, steaks, cooked rice – frozen in flat packs that I filed away vertically like vinyl records.

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

If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art, music, newspapers, love because we would all be in a mono state of happiness.

We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as ‘One Tip to a Flat Stomach.’

When I bought my first little flat, it was two bedrooms, so I got Sarah Phelps to live with me. My years-later-to-be husband was slightly thinking, ‘Why are you inviting your friends to live with you?’ I was very resistant to leaving my friends.

I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!

My first manager was Gordon Mills, who I’d met right at the beginning. We shared a flat in London and traveled with rock bands doing one-nighters. Later, he became a songwriter and manager whose stable was Tom Jones, Gilbert O’Sullivan, and myself.

There are a lot of people out there who are just waiting that we fail. They brought up the theory that we’re one-hit wonders and they want us to fall flat on our noses, just to prove them right.

When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.

I’d earned enough money, I had a flat in Wimbledon, I did some corporate things, but I was really unhappy. After being challenged all my life, suddenly there were no challenges any more.

My favourite place to train is in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where I train with my aunt and sister during the off-season. It is basically a flat, grassy area by the side of the road where we have made a path to run on.

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

I will drive flat out all the time. I love racing.

In the longer term we have got to learn how to bowl on flat pitches if England are to head the ICC Championship table.

Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.

That’s how the Pell Grant system works, in that you get a flat dollar amount, and you can use it for tuition or room and board.

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

When I looked at it and did my homework on this issue, I concluded that a flat tax is better than a consumption tax.

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.

My original aim after ‘The X Factor’ was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it – you know, buy a car, a flat.

The person I always enjoy having a meal with is Cilla Black. I might not see her for months, but then I’ll pick her up at her flat, and we’ll go to a restaurant, and it’s like I’ve seen her that morning.

He is like a bad dog, Bez. We lived together in a flat and if you didn’t get up before him, he would get up and he would take your clothes.

My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.

We just say things differently in Australia – like torch. I’d ask, ‘Can I have the torch?’ It seems to fall flat when I say, ‘Can I have the flashlight?’

Here I sit, beneath the large window of a first-floor Georgian flat, exploring the corridors of my sordid imagination for comedic words of beauty.

I’m sure there have been a lot of boys I’ve chased over the years that has been fueled by alcohol and stupidity. But that’s kind of how things happen – sometimes you have to do something really stupid, and sometimes it works out, and sometimes you fall flat on your face.

Clearly, if we’d had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.