(75 quotes found)
“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way”
Caroline Gordon
“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
“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
Helen Keller
“There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.”
Angela Carter
“I like to walk into a house and go, 'Rip up the brown shag carpet and open up that wall with some French doors.'”
Courteney Cox
“Will somebody get this giant walking carpet out of my way?”
Carrie Fisher
“Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.”
Margaret Drabble
“My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.”
John Cheever
“There must be no 'carpet slipper' approach to this investigation. We insist on a full and tough inquiry to see who is at fault.”
Bob Blackman
“Ripping up carpet is easy, tiling is the issue.”
Douglas Wilson
