Flattens Quotes

#1. Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines and details straight at one's daily life, leaving a person flat and gasping at its passage.

Laurie R. King

#2. I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

Ben Marcus

#3. Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear.

Christina Baker Kline

#4. My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody.

Paul Mooney

#5. I made some fresh pasta with a neat machine Frank brought from New York; it flattens the dough in sheets and cuts the pasta into any shape you want. It's important to have toys like that, if you live in Maine.

John Irving

#6. [the photographer] can be considered a kind of disembodied burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His work, print after print of it, seems to call to be shown before the decay which it portrays flattens all ... Here are the records of the age before an imminent collapse.

Jack Kerouac

#7. Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you away until it's time for you to become someone else's past time, and then time folds again.

Margaret Atwood

#8. In depression, your capacity to feel just flattens and disappears and what you feel is pain and a kind of pain that you can't describe to anybody. So it's an isolating pain, a completely isolating pain.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#9. Passionately obsessed by anything we love
an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love ...

Richard Bach

#10. Don't boast because you know too little," Mrs. Pang says.
"Things change a lot. Within a blink a mountain flattens and a river dries up. Nobody knows who he'll become tomorrow.

Yiyun Li

#11. We have a tendency to think of war as this quasi-mystical thing, and that interpretation flattens the experience - by using different perspectives, I wanted to open a place for readers to compare and contrast, to make judgments, to engage.

Phil Klay

#12. Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.

Barbara Johnson

#13. An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.

Dan Makaon

#14. When they'd met, Anakin had been a warmhearted nine-year-old boy with an open nature. He was twelve and a half now, and the years had changed him. He had grown to be a boy who hid his heart.

Jude Watson

#15. Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.

Vernon D. Burns

#16. Smiles that are meant to hide something never last very long, especially when the smile is hiding guilt (pg. 183).

Amy Kathleen Ryan

#17. The only way we come back as a country is to build the domestic economy.

Gerald Celente

#18. It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Emiliano Zapata

#19. A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small.

Eva K. Logue

#20. My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon.

Frank Carson

#21. To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

Epictetus

#22. Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

T. S. Eliot

#23. There's a place inside of you where you can retreat and enjoy perfect stillness.

Doreen Virtue

#24. I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.

Francine Pascal

#25. I find it impossible not to believe that there's something in Irish blood that favors their power with words.

Jim Harrison