All Quotes

Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

'FlashForward' is definitely not a sci-fi show. It doesn't have the mythology of 'Lost.' We have one major event that happens that you are asked to buy into. After that, you're dealing with very human ripple effects - how people deal with it and how they come to terms with it.
‐‐ Sonya Walger

'FlashForward' was a dream come true. I had auditioned for David Goyer for 'Blade: Trinity' and didn't get the part, but I guess he became a fan.
‐‐ Zachary Knighton

'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
‐‐ Zachary Knighton

'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.
‐‐ Zachary Knighton

'Flashpoint' is a showcase to demonstrate why the Flash is a major character, just like how we've done with Green Lantern. It's important that the Flash can hold his own.
‐‐ Geoff Johns

Flashy people aren't everything, you know. Even when they have frizzled hair.
‐‐ Ahmet Ertegun

Flat or uninteresting writing often signals something deeper that is being covered up.
‐‐ Kathi Appelt

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
‐‐ Francis Quarles

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
‐‐ George Chapman

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.
‐‐ Pietro Aretino

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
‐‐ Sarah Fielding

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
‐‐ Hank Ketcham

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
‐‐ Josh Billings

Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

Flatulence peaks twice a day... five hours after lunch and five hours after dinner.
‐‐ Mary Roach

'Flaubert's Parrot' is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.
‐‐ Alvaro Enrigue

Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.
‐‐ Rocco DiSpirito

Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
‐‐ Michael Shermer

Flaws are awesome - so, 'flawsome!' I love making up a word.
‐‐ Tyra Banks

Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.
‐‐ Lynn Shelton

Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.
‐‐ Chad Smith

Fledgling designers need investment - but how much easier it is to put them in a dead man or woman's shoes, perhaps also backing the new designer's namesake line, but only as what the French call a 'danseuse,' a plaything.
‐‐ Suzy Menkes

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
‐‐ Pierre Corneille

Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.
‐‐ Ann Wilson

Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.
‐‐ Mick Fleetwood

Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.
‐‐ Mick Fleetwood

Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.
‐‐ Helen Mirren

Flesh will not stand in front of God, so all the decisions you make from your flesh will be paid for with your soul. Your flesh rejects the truth because it desires to do what it wants to do.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

Fletcherizing is gross. I tried it once. I tried to go until it's all liquid, and it just creeps you out to be focusing so much on your chewing.
‐‐ Mary Roach

Flexibility has become a modern day value that everyone wants. But flexibility comes with a cost.
‐‐ Maynard Webb

Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.
‐‐ Samantha Stosur

Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.
‐‐ Theresa May

Flickr was designed partly to market itself. There are a lot features, in place early on, that let people take their photo, upload it to Flickr and post them elsewhere, on their own Web site or their blog, which meant a lot of incoming links.
‐‐ Stewart Butterfield

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
‐‐ Isaac Watts

Flight attendants all over the world saw 'Sex and the City.' Doesn't matter what country you are in. The flight attendants know Jack Berger.
‐‐ Ron Livingston

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
‐‐ Simon Newcomb

Flight without feathers is not easy.
‐‐ Plautus

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
‐‐ Matthew Green

Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
‐‐ Rachel Sklar

Flipboard is really fun because it's like a digital magazine that lets you curate your favorite things and follow your favorite people. I do Instagram but not Vine. I love Vine, but I don't have time to browse through it. So when I'm on YouTube, I'll look up the 'best of Vine' compilations.
‐‐ Michelle Phan

FlipBoard is the 'W Magazine' of the iPad-app world. The sleek interface makes content from your friends' Facebook and Twitter feeds much easier on the eyes by displaying them in a magazine format.
‐‐ Leila Janah

Flipkart is one of the most innovative companies in the way it approaches the market.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
‐‐ George Gissing