Carpet Quotes - Page 17

• I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.

  Michael Weatherly

  Birthday, Running, Women

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• Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets.
  - They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Magic, Library, United States

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• Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and the planet's green carpet, lifeless minerals are weathered from stones or decomposed from organic debris. Plants and microscopic animals eat these dead particles and recast them as living matter. In the soil, matter recrosses the boundary between living and dead; and, as we have seen, boundaries-edges-are where the most interesting and important events occur.

  Toby Hemenway

  Animal, Rocks, Important Events

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• To this day, I love eating steak tacos before going to the red carpets.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Red, Tacos, Eating

  "Lupita Nyong’o Talks Being Born In Mexico And Why She Misses It". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2014.

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• If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Feet, People

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.38, Image

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• If you want some big revelation, since 2010 I have dated exactly two people. The fact that there are slide shows of a dozen guys that I either hugged on a red carpet or met for lunch or wrote a song with ... it's just kind of ridiculous.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Two, Lunch

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• I'm not into red carpet looks where it's clear the woman wanted to look like a pretty, pretty princess.

  Mindy Kaling

  Princess, Looks, Red

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling Dishes On Fashion, Beauty, And Hollywood!". Interview with Kate Mulling, www.refinery29.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Yet in the celebrity-obsessed culture, where everything of you is a shot on the red carpet, I don't want that to dominate my image. First and foremost, I am an actor. I want great roles.

  Eva Mendes

  Actors, Want, Red

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• So this bloke says to me, "Can I come in your house and talk about your carpets?" I thought "That's all I need, a Je-hoover's witness".

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, House

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• It's like walking on a 1970 blaze orange shag carpet in a kitchen.

  Cody Lundin

  Orange, Kitchen, Survival

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• Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.

  Salman Rushdie

  Flying, Way, Made

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.

  Steven Tyler

  Country, Book, Black And White

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• We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not playing ages or being coy or being manipulative, but is telling the truth to the best of his or her ability...We do not wish to be crudely manipulated...We want to be massaged by a masseur, not whapped by a carpet beater.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, Character, Wish

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• I hear somebody saying we should carpet bomb Iraq or Syria. Not only is that inhumane, not only is that contrary to our values, but that would likely be an extraordinary mechanism for ISIL to recruit more people willing to die and explode bombs in an airport.

  Donald Trump

  People, Syria, Extraordinary

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The virtuous to those mansions go
  Where pleasures unembitter'd flow,
  Where, leading up a jocund band,
  Vigor and Youth dance hand in hand,
  Whilst Zephyr, with harmonious gales,
  Pipes softest music through the vales,
  And Spring and Flora, gaily crown'd,
  With velvet carpet spread the ground;
  With livelier blush where roses bloom,
  And every shrub expires perfume.

  Charles Churchill

  Spring, Hands, Rose

  Charles Churchill (1762). “The Ghost”, p.38

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• On the red carpet, I can be different women with every event and change my style and that's funny because at the end of the day, that's my work as an actress.

  Alessandra Mastronardi

  Style, Different, Red Carpet

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I've been doing my own makeup for red carpet events for years, but it wasn't until I met my business partner Divya Gugnani a few years ago that I realized I could actually turn my passion for beauty into a makeup line. We're the opposite of an artistry brand. We're for the everyday women who is very busy and only has 5 minutes in the morning to get ready. So, that's our goal, to really keep you beautiful and gorgeous on the go.

  Lindsay Ellingson

  Beautiful, Morning, Passion

  "From Victoria’s Secret Angel To CEO: Lindsay Ellingson Spills Her Best Lifestyle Tips". www.hollywood.com.

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• Women are objectified in our culture. And more and more, it takes a great deal of confidence, especially as a woman, to break the mold. You know, you're afraid that you're going to covered in a magazine as a "fashion don't." That's why you see all these girls on the red carpet looking the same.

  Tom Ford

  Girl, Fashion, Mold

  "Tom Ford Unzipped". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. December 12, 2009.

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• A child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it is through eating, without being made the subject of a psychological seminar of child-welfare experts, and written up, along with five hundred other children of three who have put their hands to their mouths for the same reason.

  Robert Benchley

  Children, Hands, Childhood

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• Odors from decaying food wafting through the air when the door is opened, colorful mold growing between a wet gym uniform and thedamp carpet underneath, and the complete supply of bath towels scattered throughout the bedroom can become wonderful opportunities to help your teenager learn once again that the art of living in a community requires compromise, negotiation, and consensus.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Art, Teenager, Opportunity

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• I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.

  Beth Henley

  Mother, Phones, Talking

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• I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head.

  Al Gore

  Let It Go, Pageantry, Red

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• [Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.

  Charles Lloyd

  Art, Blessed, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records.

  Clint Catalyst

  Wall, Flower, Book

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• Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.

  Arthur Machen

  Eye, Glowing, Looks

  "The London Adventure". Book by Arthur Machen, p.25, 1924.

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