Flatt Quotes & Sayings

Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death? — Thomas Gray

Wanted to give you a heads up: I heard that Flat Finn sustained an injury the other day. Nothing major, though. Something to do with Matt, a steaming iron, and maniacal shouts of, "There are no wrinkles allowed in this house! You may be flat, but you're not smooth enough yet for this family!" — Jessica Park

When we went into the New England states, people were talking about the new sound of Flatt & Scruggs, but we had been doing that sound for 20 years. — Lester Flatt

Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you. — Anna Godbersen

Don't stop at the Ford's because they're at Gerald Flatt's," a short kid says in passing.
"Super dooper!" Granny's dentures clickity-clack. "Don't stomp on the Lord just because it's raining cats." She nods and adjusts her hearing aid. "Those are words to live by, little man! — Jenny B. Jones

When we're talking about a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, "trust me" just isn't good enough. — John McCain

From watching Lester (Flatt), I learned that it's important to be loyal to the people who made you and bought your music. He called me up to the front of the (tour) bus on the very first trip I went on with him. Lester pointed out two elderly people who were walking towards the but. He said, 'Those two people have been coming to see me since the mid 40's. That's what a country fan is all about.' — Marty Stuart

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe. — Swami Vivekananda

Time is immaterial. It is immortal.
Time never chose people to define their lives with it. That was humanity's choice. That was when man gave Time the control of everything, and ceased to control it himself. Time never tires, but it ensures that it tires man. That's how it controls humanity.
It creates hopelessness for man. — Umair Naeem

Spirituality: the last refuge of a failed human. Just another way of distracting yourself from who you really are. — George Carlin

Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

A Hundred Years From Now Well a hundred years from now I won't be crying A hundred years from now I won't be blue And my heart would have forgotton she broke ever vow I won't care a hundred years from now Oh, it seem like yesterday you told me You couldn't live without my love somehow Now that you're with another it breaks my heart somehow I won't care a hundred years from now * Refrain Now do you recall the night sweetheart you promised Another's kiss you never would allow That's all in the past dear it didn't seem to last I won't care a hundred years from now * Refrain — Lester Flatt

I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him. — Ricky Skaggs