Fall Flat On Face Quotes

#1. You can't give real responsibilities to the shady shoulders. The weak may learn, but a shady person will always fall flat on face.

Sarvesh Jain

#2. You fall flat on your face, and it's not the first time you've done it, Never let your past press you down.

Auliq Ice

#3. Doctor, I'd like a bottle of placebo please.

Candess M. Campbell

#4. Life does not favor the fearful nor does it reward the reluctant; it embraces and elevates those willing to climb in spite of their fear and willing to try in the mocking face of failure. It gives bonus points to those who fall flat, get up and climb again.

Toni Sorenson

#5. You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.

Edmund Vance Cooke

#6. I'd rather walk than ride the airplane, I can fall on the ground flat on my face and die that way.

Jack Kerouac

#7. All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

O.R. Melling

#8. I would rather fall flat on my face than try to just make a quick dollar by making music that fits into the radio format right now. It does nothing for me.

Ariel Rechtshaid

#9. He raised his brows. "You're drunk." "Am not!" He gave me a bland look. "A drunk's famous last words before they fall flat on their face.

J. Lynn

#10. I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic. So it can be something as simple as, like, if you're someone who doesn't cook, you can make a meal.

Ashton Kutcher

#11. I haven't won a World Cup. There's things that haven't been finished, and I'm not afraid to fall flat on my face trying.

Abby Wambach

#12. I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.

Sam Hunt

#13. 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

#14. The truth never set me free.

Paramore

#15. If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over agaain.

Greg Egan

#16. Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.

Ray Bradbury

#17. In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the business and philanthropic sphere in order to reveal the essential connection between the two.

Shari Arison

#18. If I weren't in Radiohead I'd be working at a grocery store, I'd be that creepy guy who lives in an efficiency apartment and collects salted, cured meats.

Thom Yorke

#19. I'm sure there have been a lot of boys I've chased over the years that has been fueled by alcohol and stupidity. But that's kind of how things happen - sometimes you have to do something really stupid, and sometimes it works out, and sometimes you fall flat on your face.

Noel Wells

#20. Try again. Fall flat on your face, get up, try again. Fall on your face, get up, try again.

Frank Mir

#21. Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.

Wilbur Smith

#22. You know, I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic.

Ashton Kutcher

#23. My compulsion is to create things.

Julian Schnabel

#24. 'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

Homer

#25. The script's always important, but there are some things that have come out in the past year that, when we read them, everyone was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be the next best thing!" Then the movie falls completely flat on its face.

Douglas Booth

#26. It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

Alberto Moravia

#27. I try my very hardest to remember that I don't have to be anything but Evangeline. That's all that's expected of me. And if I try to be more or less, I will fall flat on my face. So if I just continue to hold my head high and keep myself in check, I'm being who I was born to be.

Evangeline Lilly

#28. Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.

Leonard Binder

#29. Confidence comes from knowing what you're doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.

Tom Landry

#30. If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough - they are not thinking the great creative thoughts that will provide breakthroughs in how we do things.

Donald A. Norman

#31. You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

James Thurber

#32. If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face.

Paul Weyrich

#33. Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.

Eddy Arnold

#34. Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!

John Galsworthy

#35. The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end.

Pam Brown

#36. I'm always more interested in trying things that will push me, and I don't care if I fall flat on my face doing it.

Marc Almond

#37. I like Marilyn Monroe; she was super glam, weren't she?

Rebecca Ferguson

#38. There's always that moment on every movie where you just go, 'Okay, this is that moment. I'm about to potentially fall flat on my face, and I might as well just dive in and see what happens.'

Johnny Depp

#39. It's tough, acting. You have to walk two lines of a tightrope. There's the all-consuming fear of failure: I'm about to fall flat on my face. There's that and there's also confidence - you have to be confident in order to try things - and they fight each other all the time.

Jessica Chastain

#40. When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

Geoffrey Rush

#41. The gods grow jealous of too much contentment anywhere, and they show their displeasure all of a sudden.

R.K. Narayan

#42. If you have time to judge another person's life, you're not paying attention to yours.

Ginn Pascale

#43. Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Ben Stein

#44. I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

Johnny Depp