Carpeted Floor Quotes

#1. Placidity and order and everything in its place, with a decorous and sanctioned violence going on underneath everything, like a heavy, brutal shoe tapping out the rhythm on a carpeted floor.

Margaret Atwood

#2. Linda cranked the greatest hits of heartbreak and we sat down on the carpeted floor to listen. I missed you.

Rick Moody

#3. Rather than do anything to draw his attention to me, I sat back and watched as he gave a row of metal chairs the worst beating of their inanimate lives, thrashing them into tiny pieces and stomping them into the carpeted floor.

Tim Marquitz

#4. Let your life be joyful, mystical, everlasting blossoms of poetic ecstasy.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Capitalism is not a synonym for free markets.

Richard A. Posner

#6. There is not now, nor I suspect will there ever be, a le Carre novel with ninjas in it. Most serious novelists are wary of including ninjas in their writing. That's a shame, because many much-admired works of modern fiction could benefit from a few.

Nick Harkaway

#7. 'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.

Michael Moore

#8. What we actually know firsthand is minuscule: the feel of the spring air on our skin, our own private daydreams and phobias. Outside of these tiny warrens of private knowledge, we have to depend on what others say.

Christopher L. Hayes

#9. Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

C.S. Lewis

#10. Only then do I realize that the jewel had always been with in me, even then and that the light had always shinned, only my eyes were closed

Dan Millman

#11. One of my greatest talents is recognizing talent in others and giving them the forum to shine.

Tory Burch

#12. What's the point being the best fighter on the planet if no likes you?

Ricky Hatton

#13. If David Brent is the best thing that I ever come up with, then so be it. What are you supposed to do, time the best thing you do for just before you die?

Ricky Gervais

#14. Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place.

May Swenson

#15. We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

James A. Baldwin