Carpet Quotes - Page 3

• Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards by his cleanliness, and thinks a dog the more highly civilized for having a weekly bath and a winter wrapper round his belly.

  Lin Yutang

  Dog, Winter, Men

  Yutang Lin (1939). “My country and my people”

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• When you get into fashion, when you're not yet working in fashion, you have this idea about what the fashion world is: that it's very glamorous, it's the red carpet, it's very editorial. But really, what you don't understand until you get into it, is what goes on the rest of the time, which is just hard work. Besides passion and dedication, it's the grit. How long are you willing to be in it to become successful?

  Prabal Gurung

  Fashion, Hard Work, Passion

  Source: www.elle.com

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• All of these red carpet events may seem natural for you journalists, but it doesn't feel natural for actors.

  Toby Jones

  Actors, May, Red

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet like mushrooms, clothes falling to the floor like autumn leaves. Every once in a while she would blaze through the house and clean everything-at which point, the process would start all over.

  Erica Bauermeister

  Children, Growing Up, Fall

  Erica Bauermeister (2011). “Joy For Beginners”, p.63, Penguin

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• We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life.

  Alain de Botton

  Beautiful, Commitment, Giving

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• I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.

  Werner Herzog

  Party, Red, Events

  "Werner Herzog Talks Teaching Lock-Picking, Being A Living Legend And ‘Into The Abyss’". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.indiewire.com. November 14, 2011.

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• [on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dog, Rain, School

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• I've had a lot of people in my past who were friends with me just to get publicity. When I was young, my mom or sister used to have to point out if someone was using me to make a name for themselves – you know, linking arms with me on the red carpet and trying to get in every picture. But now I can see for myself when someone is just hungry for attention.

  Paris Hilton

  Mom, Past, Names

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• There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.

  Herman Melville

  Lying, Men, Europe

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.186, Northwestern University Press

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• I still believe pattern fascinates on its own. And three-sevenths of a pattern, or even a smaller fragment, can fascinate still more--get us really hunkering down, trying to tease out the whole of the figure in the carpet.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Believe, Trying, Three

  Samuel R. Delany, Carl Howard Freedman (2009). “Conversations with Samuel R. Delany”, p.59, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• With gas cookers and chip pans in every kitchen, the chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their houses down. The second technique was the ever popular chimney fire and number three had to be the drunken cigarette drop on the carpet. Mind you, why they'd be cooking chips at this hour was anyone's guess.

  Adrian McKinty

  Fire, Numbers, House

  Adrian McKinty (2012). “The Cold Cold Ground”, p.106, Profile Books

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• I think it's particularly fun not being a full-time showbiz reporter because you still have the 'Oh, wow!' factor when you go out on the red carpet and there are these big stars that are standing there. But if you're doing this day in and day out, it becomes a little blase.

  Daryn Kagan

  Stars, Fun, Thinking

  "Oscars and the 'Oh, wow' factor" by Daryn Kagan, www.cnn.com. February 14, 2003.

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• For many years I've been using Swarovski accessories when styling editorial photo shoots and also for red carpet appearances.

  George Kotsiopoulos

  Years, Accessories, Red

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• The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.

  Steven Pressfield

  Order, May, Want

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.77, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Plato, Pride, Dwelling

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• I would say natural is the best way to describe the real me. I'm not always going out or dressed up like I am on the red carpet. On a normal day, I wear normal clothes and wear little to no make-up. I'm always a bit girly, though.

  Paris Hilton

  Girly, Real, Clothes

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• I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people.

  Morgan Freeman

  People, Want, Red

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 19, 2012.

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• The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass carpet, the magnanimity of souls, the loftiness of minds, the depth of love - all these things remind us of a God who is beautiful and noble.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Beautiful, Sky, Rose

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• In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Nature, Spring, White

  Mary Baker Eddy (1916). “Miscellaneous Writings: 1883-1896”

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• Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

  Rumi

  Intelligent, Intelligence, Wool

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.148, Shambhala Publications

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• I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Morning, Tombstone

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.98

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• Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are.Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story.

  Vera Nazarian

  Profound, Once Upon A Time, Stories

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• When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.

  Florence Welch

  Teenager, Red, Rooms

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• I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.

  Jon Ronson

  Thinking, Academia, Different

  "The complexities of the psychopath test: A Q&A with Jon Ronson". Interview with Ben Lillie, blog.ted.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

  Alain de Botton

  Light, Smell, Childhood

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2014

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