I cried when I saw how flat Toledo was.
Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda – whether on the right or left – is flat out wrong.
The slogans of globalisation are ‘Get on your bike’ and ‘The world is flat.’ People who want to get on have to be willing to move, often and unhesitatingly, at the behest of their employer or to seek work.
Going from the written, flat word to the three-dimensional object, that was one of the more enriching things that I’ve done.
During the Second World War, we lived in a flat on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. At one point during the blitz, the air-raid sirens went off every night for 30 nights, and each time, my parents would grab my sister and me and take us to the shelter beneath Whitechapel underground station.
I treat the camera like a person – I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
One day, I went to meet a film producer and entered the wrong flat. It was a casting agency, and they suggested that I audition for a four-hero Telugu film. I was confirmed a month later. Interestingly, it’s not easy down South for a newcomer to bag positive roles, but I was adamant.
I think, in the past, you could buy a flat and live comfortably on theatre and touring theatre, but you can’t do that anymore, which means that you have to have a certain amount of celebrity and profile to, therefore, get TV and film work.
Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody’s the boss. In a sense, we’re all equal.
Sometimes, waiting for too long for the right film may fall flat.
My theory was that good furniture could be priced so that the man with the flat wallet would be attracted to it, would make a place for it in his spending, and could afford it.
Great fast bowlers don’t have to worry about whether the track is flat or green. They’ll find a way to get wickets.
In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.
I am the best hope to prove the Flat Earth.
Freedom in America was not always flat. Racism made it un-flat, so that some people had privileges over other people.
I love wearing flat shoes, but I am not one of those girls who walks around in sweat pants and sneakers.
Our fumbling government’s response since Beirut – during both Republican and Democratic administrations – has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away.
Television is a good training ground for aspiring stars. You can experiment and get away, imbibing the positive and viable aspects. Whereas, in cinema, the stakes are high. If something goes wrong, the film falls flat.
I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven.
There’s this expectation of glamour. Unlike men who can wear suits and nonchalantly stroll on in a flat loafer, I’ve got to run across the studio floor live in a high heel and a tight frock.
Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon landings never happened.
I can’t bake anything. I’m the worst. My cakes always come out flat.
It’s impossible to let fame go to your head when you still live in North Shields in a flat with your mum.
As a child, I always remember our home, which was a flat just on the Barnes side of Hammersmith Bridge in London, buzzing with actors such as Patrick McGee and Peter Bowles. We were a family who were always on the go.
Well, I like characters, players with personality, I don’t like flat people.
We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
A boring speech can be just a boring speech. But a speech with a joke that falls flat is awful. I hate it. That’s why I think it’s easier to hate a comedy. If a drama doesn’t land, it’s boring; if a joke doesn’t land – you hate that.
There’s a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
I’ve always felt that there’s a lot of similarity between doing a comedy and doing a scary movie because jokes and scares are all about timing. If you give the punch line too early or too late, the joke falls flat. And it’s the same with a scare.
I love bowling on flat wickets with a bit of bounce. That personally suits my game.
In 1999 my father died and my mother was coming to live with me. So I left my Kennington flat and bought a house with a garden because my mother loved watching the birds.
We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.
We like being private because when there is a downturn, as in 2001 and 2008, we do not reduce people. Also, we have flat decision-making. It’s quick. We don’t have to meet quarterly numbers, and it’s all about excellence of work for the client.
You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I’m Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
I do crunches to keep those abs going strong and flat. I’m not a sedentary person.
We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they’re wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and they’ve got flat hair and they can’t walk.
I don’t look at fashion shows on the internet because it’s too flat.
Thomas Friedman’s ‘The World is Flat’ sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
If there’s anything consistent about my work, it’s not flat.
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
When I took over ‘New Mutants,’ writing and drawing, and I figure this is a big deal, I’m 23, 22 at that time, and I am nervous because I’ve had nothing but success. And now they’re giving me the entire platform to create. And I figure, if I fall flat on my face here, it’s going to hurt. It’s going to set me back.
After my grandmother passed away, I felt the urge to take my camera to her flat. I knew this flat from my childhood in Tel Aviv. Going to this flat was like going abroad; there was a real feeling of traveling across Tel Aviv and ending up in Berlin.
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
If you are going to make a change, don’t go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you’re going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
The Earth is flat, 100 per cent.
The day I turned 16, I moved into my own flat. My parents had just broken up, and I didn’t want to go back to Ireland with my mother. I was doing my A-levels, and my friends would come over and watch ‘Twin Peaks.’
The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it’s not flat. It’s rounded; it’s like a sphere, so there’s always a hidden face. There’s one that is revealed because there’s light reflecting on it, but there’s always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that’s life.
With Red Skelton, you could fall flat on your face and he’d do his sketch around it.
My synesthesia is mostly gone – it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you’re trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist – flat is all I see.
The expat life was a good one: There was my French boyfriend. My bright two-bedroom flat in Islington. My wine at lunch. I had a ‘go bag’ packed with loose linens and mosquito repellent – I was ready to be flung to the outer edges of the world at a moment’s notice. It was all intrigue and adventure.
The future will take care of itself. My plans have fallen flat. Nothing that I planned has worked for me so far. So I don’t plan anymore. I keep short-term plans.
I didn’t want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.
I prefer flat shoes and comfort: I feel more like myself.
I was so frustrated after 2016 with the Republican Party. When we had the House, the presidency and the Senate, and we had a pretty fair Supreme Court, I really expected to see all of these things that Republicans have wanted for so long finally come to fruition, but then it all kind of fell flat on its face.
I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and ‘Doctor Who’ would be on with my flatmate there. I would have loved to share the fact that I was the new Doctor, but I couldn’t. I was going mad. My dad was rather flabbergasted. When I told him, he laughed. He was excited, elated and very proud.
