Oriental Rug Quotes

#1. Did you ever think how conceited those Oriental rug weavers are, to believe they have to try and make a mistake so as not to compete with God? Like they would have done it perfectly otherwise, if they hadn't forced themselves to mess it up?

Anne Tyler

#2. They hauled books from the shelves, flipped through the pages, and tossed them to the floor until an entire library of legal volumes lay with cracked spines across the Oriental rug.

Ariel Lawhon

#3. I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.

Thomas F. Wilson

#4. I know now that this isn't true love or perfection or happily ever after. It's not even meant to be. This is a broken condom at the end of a drunken night. This is a generational walk of shame with two hundred spectators

Christina Meredith

#5. It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.

Ellsworth Huntington

#6. The room was filled with a strange vibe of awkwardness that I was sure could only be dissolved by kissing him again or running away.

E.M. Denning

#7. I wanted to jump, Sam, but I never once expected the fall to go up.

Aly Martinez

#8. When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.

Cate Marvin

#9. The most important part of design is finding all the issues to be resolved. The rest are details

Soumeet Lanka

#10. No one likes my books except the public.

Mickey Spillane

#11. The single most important change you can make in your working habits is to switch to creative work first, reactive work second. This means blocking off a large chunk of time every day for creative work on your own priorities, with the phone and e-mail off.

Jocelyn K. Glei

#12. I do stay busy. I like new challenges.

Kirk Kerkorian

#13. It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World

Kevin Spacey

#14. This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.

Soren Kierkegaard

#15. Life is service.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. I pretty much believe, as everyone in the B Team does, that business must succeed beyond the bottom line. More important than profits is how you get to them. Measuring financial earnings and losses only is definitely not enough and has led us astray from creating a better world for all.

Guilherme Leal

#17. His eyelashes are like individual threads of spun gold lit on fire.

Tahereh Mafi