Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.
Sometimes God has to put us flat on our back before we are looking up to Him.
How can we describe the most exalted experience of our physical lives [sex], as if-jack, wrench, hubcap, and nuts-we were describing the changing of a flat tire?
When I've done somewhat scripted stuff, it feels a little flat. It feels like there's not much life behind it.
God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and pens. He is with us in our wheelchairs, or on our hospital beds, when all we can do is sit or lie flat. When we envision Him and His purpose in what we do, then we begin to grow aware of His presence in the middle of it. We are able to engage in our inward conversation with Him as we work, naturally, without strain. He becomes our partner, our collaborator.
You must not look in that mirror at your doughy legs and flat feet, for today is about dreams and illusions, and unfiltered natural daylight is the enemy of dreams.
If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (. . . ) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception.
The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.
Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.
When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters.
Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat when it came to charging the imagination - my imagination, anyway.
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.
I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.
In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.
You're kind of a smart ass when you're not flat on your face.
Negroid traits, dark skin, flat, thick nose.
Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.
If I'm outside, I want something flat on my feet.
We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.