Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neither will I put myself forward as others may do, Neither, if you wish to flatter, will I flatter you; I will look at you grimly, and so you will know I am true.

I thought we were flat offensively. We were still making a lot of mistakes. We really need to come out and play the first quarter.

Thomas Friedman

JFK wanted to put a man on the moon. My vision is to put every American man and woman on a campus. ... The World is Flat

Ed Gillespie

Terry McAuliffe is flat wrong and slanderous when he says the president was AWOL,

My wardrobe staple is simple shirt dresses. They never date, and you can put them with a heel or a flat sandal.

Jimmy Johnson

Man, before we hit the start of the race we had a flat tire. It was a really tough day for us.

Angus Young

That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

I was very pleased with the way the girls battled back. I'm a little disappointed in the way we seem to start flat every game, though.

We don't want to make too much of any one month. But last month was flat in terms of total jobs. This month we're down. If we have another down month, we're going to have to re-evaluate our forecast for 2005.

We were very flat and we simply didn't play very well. We trailed the whole game and just couldn't put anything together.

We played flat and we played down to their level, and that's been one of our problems all year. We had to push it up before they could make a run at us like the Penn State-Illinois game last week.

He can flat out shoot it. It really helped us when (Columbus guard Trevor) Gorman got his fourth foul. He was doing a good job of getting inside and kicking it out. That really helped us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Rick Kennedy

Overall, production is down this year to a point where it's flat to slightly lower. So they're going to try to offer these packages so they don't have to do anything involuntary.

The Pell grant has been flat for four years in a row. It is a lot of give or take.

Sadie Jones

I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.

You look on just about every team nowadays, they seem to have one guy like that. It can really help if a team comes out flat or there's a line that's not playing well.

We were a little flat and may have taken our opponent too lightly.

We didn't come up and tackle, ... They flat out ran over us and they looked good tonight.

Carly Fiorina

We are ... looking at, at this point, flat revenue growth in the third quarter,

Typically, we see flat or slightly rising prices in December, because people are usually willing to pay more.

Travel spending could be flat this summer instead of seeing 8 percent increases like we've seen in the past.

We've been flat and need to get a spark. Maybe Maris' return will help.

We didn't even wake up until the third period. We've been off two weeks, and it was their home opener, and they had more jump and just flat outplayed us for the first two and a half periods.

John Milton

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would / By her own radiant light, though sun and moon / Were in the flat sea sunk.

While it's flattering that they should use it, it's well-established.

Danielle Panabaker

I think the important part is picking clothes that are flattering to your figure, and obviously I want a big say in what I was going to wear, 'cause it's still me that's out there.

We opted to put on tires. My call, just to make sure we got no flats or anything happened. Good day for us in points, but the season ain't over yet.

David Bowie

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

We're the only ones that will be flat out of business.

With as flat as we played, we were very fortunate to be up 1-0 at halftime.