Carpet Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• We chat about clothes and if we're going on the red carpet we definitely talk about what we are going to wear.

  Bonnie Wright

  Clothes, Red, Ifs

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• Of tobacco and its consequences, I will say nothing but that the practice is at too bad a pass to leave hope that anything that could be said in books would work a cure. If the floors of boarding-houses, and the decks of steam-boats, and the carpets of the Capitol, do not sicken the Americans into a reform; if the warnings of physicians are of no avail, what remains to be said? I dismiss the nauseous subject.

  Harriet Martineau

  Book, Practice, House

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.200

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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 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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• Oh, yeah, I like a high neck. And I like naked backs. It seems very sexy. Red carpets are about being a bit theatrical - having fun rather than being too safe. You have to be brave. Fashion is fun.

  Eva Green

  Sexy, Fashion, Fun

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• It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.

  Joely Richardson

  Taken, Red, Difficult

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

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• I couldn't care less about walking down the red carpet in a pair of heels and a posh frock. I'd rather be in my pyjamas at home.

  Sophia Myles

  Home, Care, Red

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

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• I've always watched actors on the red carpet getting drunk and making idiots of themselves and now I'm happy to join their ranks

  Ethan Hawke

  Drunk, Actors, Red

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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 feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.

  Adam Driver

  Awkward, Red, Bizarre

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• I do not give a damn what I look like, I don't. I wish I could pay attention because Gwen Stefani, say, looks flawless. Of course, when I'm on red carpets, I'm nervous, sweaty, and weird.

  Selena Gomez

  Giving, Wish, Looks

  "Selena Gomez: I’m Nervous, Sweaty & Weird On The Red Carpet" By Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2013.

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• Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes, traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies. Ducks and pigs and chickens call, animal carpet wall to wall, American ladies five-foot tall in blue. Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind, had to get away to see what we could find. Hope the days that lie ahead, bring us back to where they've led, listen not to what's been said to you. Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express? Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express, they're taking me to Marrakesh. All aboard the train, all aboard the train...

  Graham Nash

  Wall, Lying, Sunset

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• The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of science.

  I. J. Good

  Objectivity, Judgement, Calling

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• I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Believe, Writing

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, Bob Faw, www.pbs.org. April 24, 2009.

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• There are lots of people who are red-carpet types, but that's not me.

  Megyn Kelly

  People, Red, Type

  "Megyn Kelly: Fox's Lady" by Julia Reed, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 4, 2013.

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• The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

  Samantha Barks

  Car, Important, Red

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• I can't promise to love someone for ever. I can't imagine anyone could promise to love me for ever. I mean, it sounds like a lovely day, but I go to red carpet events all the time and I'm the centre of attention so it's not like I'm looking for that!

  Kelly Brook

  Mean, Lovely, Promise

  "Kelly Brook" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• The thing about living in Los Angeles and doing a lot of movies is that you get to go to a lot of premieres, and, regardless of whether or not you're a celebrity, you still get to walk down the red carpet and then have everyone sort of screaming your name. The pictures never get printed anywhere, but they are nonetheless taking your picture.

  Missi Pyle

  Names, Red, Los Angeles

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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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• But if an actress asks me my opinion, I would tell her there are a million different designers who make faux fur. If you like that look, wear faux fur. If you're doing it on the red carpet, you're doing it for how it looks. Faux fur and real fur look the same on camera.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Real, Fur, Looks

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

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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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