Carpeted 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. Tem loved the mortuaries, though no one he knew was dead. Still he would beg to go, to grasp the hand of any adult willing to wind down those plush-carpeted stairways, past the sleek vaults, inviting and bright.

Katharine E.K. Duckett

#3. I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted.

Maya Angelou

#4. The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.

Harryette Mullen

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

Rick Moody

#6. Dr. Loveless: Dang these pine needles. Why can't a forest be decently carpeted?
Wild Wild West (TV) Second Season: Night of the Green Terror

Michael Garrison

#7. 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

#8. A familiar oak tree. A pine needle carpeted forest. She searches for secret messages from her dead father. The big house fills the background. Wind carries a sound of distant crying, and a plaintive voice sounding like her sister.

Michael Abramson

#9. That evening, she went from knock-kneed tomboy to Greek goddess in the space of twenty-two short, red-carpeted steps.

Suzanne Rindell

#10. 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

#11. There are silences and silences. No one of them is like another. There is the silence of grief in velvet-draped rooms of a plushly carpeted funeral parlor which is far different from the bleak and terrible silence of grief in a widower's lonely bedroom.

Dean Koontz

#12. The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would not want as a reader a man who did not appreciate the finesse of a double play.

John Cheever

#13. Imagination is a great thing for those who know how to use it, and very few can or everyone could do it

J.D. Couch

#14. When you're comfortable in your own skin, you look beautiful, regardless of any flaws.

Emily Deschanel

#15. Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.

Norm MacDonald

#16. Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

Margaret Atwood

#17. I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

Robert Kennedy

#18. Rejection is just a test to see how much you really want something.

Kristy Brown

#19. I think pushing the ideas is important. I wouldn't say it's more important than action. You can't really separate the two.

John Zerzan

#20. I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Arianna Huffington

#21. There is no slave, after all, like a wife ... Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

#22. Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana