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“Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines”
Claude McKay
“Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.”
Ben Stein
“When we are flat on our back, there is no way to look but up.”
Roger Babson
“North Carolina is the place you fly over on the way to Florida. Ohio is the flat place between Hoboken and Malibu.”
John Fleischman
“[The wearer of these sandals] did not look out on swirling dust devils or miles of alkali and sand flats, as we did that hot August day, but on a great lake with wavelets lapping against a beach below the cave.”
Luther Cressman
“Flat-out flatness, the hard line of the horizon. I like the little towns with their handfuls of buildings huddled close to the grain elevators, like medieval towns clustered around their cathedrals.”
Gordon Webber
“Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine, and valleys of frustration and failure.”
Calvin & Hobbes
“Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.”
Will Smith
“The first load, 50 pieces were soaking wet, ... We unframed everything, got them stable, lying flat to aerate and dry, and documented each piece with photography. We were able to save a good percentage.”
Heather Becker