A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Francis Bacon

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.
Rex Stout

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.
Richie Benaud

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Logan P. Smith

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Henry B. Adams

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.
Corrine Brown

As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up with its face, letting it fall again as its back glides onwards.
Lawrence Hargrave

Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.
Douglas Trumbull

Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it.
Juan Cole

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers

Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
Eddy Arnold

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.
Nick Hornby

I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.
Jimmy Buffett

I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
Sadie Frost

I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe.
William Lyons

I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know.
Claire Danes

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.
William Shatner

I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.
David Ginola

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.
Roy Orbison

I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.
Albert Finney