Carpet Quotes - Page 15

• The red carpet doesn't interest me. I think people become all the same; it's like everyone posing from the three-quarter angle in some low-cut, fitted dress; it's all the same.

  Marc Jacobs

  Cutting, Thinking, People

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• A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.

  Hulk Hogan

  People, Realizing, Short Time

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• Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.

  Plutarch

  Beautiful, Men, Speech

  Plutarch (2012). “Greek and Roman Lives”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Hate, Voice, Want

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• I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Fall, Bread, Sides

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.110, BookBaby

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• I don't want to be all worthy about it, but I don't do red carpets, I don't do events and I don't accept freebies that much.

  James McAvoy

  Events, Want, Red

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Asking Questions, Blood, People

  "'My mother is very happy about it'". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2008.

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• I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door; and all that was left of the mobscene was the head of a whacking big fish, lying on the carpet and staring up at me in a rather austere sort of way, as if it wanted a written explanation and apology.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Lying, Cat, Apology

  P. G. Wodehouse (2016). “Expecting Jeeves”, p.34, Courier Dover Publications

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• If airports can be seen as temples to travel, gateways to other worlds, then airport carpets are the vast prayer mats upon which we all genuflect.

  George Pendle

  Prayer, Airports, Other Worlds

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect.

  George Pendle

  Airports, Intellect, Senses

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Disneyworld... is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

  Alan Coren

  Historical, Magic, Vision

  "Tissues for Men". Book by Alan Coren, 1980.

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• Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Horse, Imagination

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• No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was meant to happen, that if only we knew how long the ruins would last we would never complain.

  Mark Strand

  Space, Dust, Wind

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.334, Knopf

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• I can't stop pointing
  to the beauty.
  Every moment and place says,
  'Put this design in your carpet!'

  Rumi

  Beauty, Design, Moments

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 11: "Union", 1995.

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• CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Smell, Library, Marble

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I hated being photographed and never wanted to go on red carpets, even though they always asked me to. My place was behind the scenes. I wasn't a diva. I preferred to look at life from the outside.

  Giovanna Cau

  Goes On, Behind The Scenes, Red

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you've got to have a picture on the wall.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wall, America, Want

  On visiting Pittsburgh's Polish - Czech area. Quoted in Alistair Cooke The Americans (1980).

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• I've never felt that I was doing something for my people, except what I could to bring the accomplishments of the old ones to the attention of the world. I think the Northwest Coast style of art is an absolutely unique product, one of the crowning achievements of the whole human experience. I just don't want the whole thing swept under the carpet without someone paying attention to it.

  Bill Reid

  Art, Unique, Thinking

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• In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Nature, Stars, Simple

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.44, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands yielded to a lover, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness thus could not be separated from the balconies of great châteaux filled with idle amusements, a boudoir with silk blinds, a good thick carpet, full of pots of flowers, and a bed raised on a dais, nor from the sparkle of precious stones and shoulder knots on servants' livery.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Love, Flower, Hands

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• A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Flower, Gay

  Edgar Allan Poe (2009). “The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.314, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in ­pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  Florence Welch

  Running, Dream, People

  "The unstoppable rise of Florence Welch". Interview with John Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2010.

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• There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal.

  Daniel Handler

  Salmon, Meals, Yogurt

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• I was home-schooled and I graduated super-early. But I've always had older friends, so I got to go to all their dances. I got the best of both worlds. I had the choice to go to prom with a friend of mine and I decided not to because I was filming very close to that. But red carpets and the 'G.B.F' prom were so much better.

  Sasha Pieterse

  Home, Choices, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the things I try to do is try to make repetitions, rhymes, and mirrorings across the subject matter of my own books so that the chapter titles and the epigraphs and pictures all kind of form a tapestry. In this book, I retell fifteen of the stories. You have the critical frame, and then you have these rosettes like the motif in a carpet.

  Marina Warner

  Book, Trying, Titles

  Source: therumpus.net

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