Flatting Quotes & Sayings

If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough? — Roger Ebert

Where there's no law, there's no bread. — Benjamin Franklin

If we can't be ourselves, why even be? — Scott Hildreth

The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together. — Bernard Ebbers

But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made. — Errol Morris

Because if you judge him solely on his few moments of lows, then you miss out on his beautiful highs." *** — Brittainy C. Cherry

I don't feel that I've accomplished anything. I feel that it'll be better when I won't care as much, but it's so difficult to let go and accept all the wrong notes. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trails are often blessings in disguise. — Oscar Wilde

I bake all the time, but I don't like to eat the cookies when they're done. I just like the dough. — Sharon Stone

For instead of being "the ardent pursuer of science" that some imagined, Jefferson was the captive of ambition, and ambition, Adams told John Quincy, was "the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field . . . [and] wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner. — David McCullough

When a person has a poor ear for music he will flat and sharp right along without knowing it. He keeps near the tune, but it is not the tune. When a person has a poor ear for words, the result is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending to say, but you also perceive that he doesn't say it. — Mark Twain

It's the accursed inventions of the age that are ruining everything - the artillery, the muskets, the cannons, and above all the printing press, that scourge brought from Germany. No more manuscripts, no more books. Printing is ruining bookselling. The end of the world is upon us. — Victor Hugo

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Just hearing that one word makes me feel as though I have gone back in time, to a part of my life when things made sense, when the world was fair. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

His [Francisco Goya's] debt to the Christianity of the eighteenth century is contained in the idea that politics was just adopting from the Gospels: the conviction that man has a right to justice. Such a statement would seem utterly conceited to a Roman, who would doubtless have looked upon the Disasters as we look upon photographs of the amphitheatre ... But if Goya thought that man has not come onto the earth to be cut to pieces he thought that he must have come here for something. Is it to live in joy and honour? Not only that; it is to come to terms with the world. And the message he never ceased to preach, a message underlined by war, is that man only comes to terms with the world by blinding himself with childishness. — Andre Malraux

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. — Daphne Du Maurier