Quotes:
Max waited for a moment before knocking on the door, wondering who had built on the ugly flat-roofed porch, and then a shadow appeared behind the mottled glass. [The Sea House]
View quotes by Esther Freud
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
View quotes by Alcaeus
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
View quotes by James Thurber
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
View quotes by Will Rogers
This pitch is as flat as a dodo [another mixed metaphor from Bumble]
View quotes by David Lloyd
One of my daughters was a bit flat-chested, so she had implants and she's got a lovely pair now. I see nothing wrong with it.
View quotes by Rod Stewart
I have no doubt it is going to be tough as they will be going flat out [on facing England's pace attack]
View quotes by Shoaib Malik
He turned and punched me in the face so hard that I fell flat on to the concrete... I think he knew who I was.
View quotes by Grace Adams-short
They bombed my granny's chippie, left it completely flat. I'll have her for that [fighting a German boxer]
View quotes by Jane Couch
Training sessions here are terrifying. They are like matches, you go flat out. During the actual games it's as if everybody's brains are switched off.
View quotes by Florent Malouda
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
View quotes by Henry Adams
A painting, before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.
View quotes by Maurice Denis
As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.
View quotes by Corrine Brown
I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.
View quotes by Peggy Noonan
There's a couple of times when you think of a really right idea for a lyric when you can sort of tell, as long as you don't make it a really flat melody, that this could be a really catchy idea
View quotes by Paul Heaton
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
View quotes by John Milton
'I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.'
View quotes by Shirley Manson
The way they bowled on a flat wicket was tremendous. We didn't want to chase too many because the wicket was wearing and we knew Warne would have a big say [on Ashes fourth test, 2005]
View quotes by Michael Vaughan
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.
View quotes by Gordon Webber
The door opened and it was God himself who walked into the room, straight from the glittering throne, God dressed in a camel's hair polo coat and flat camel's hair cap.
View quotes by Paul Gallico
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