The Carpet Quotes

#1. The Airstream drives like a couch on a magic carpet; it's

Jennifer Flower

#2. He grew out his hair," June says. "He looks amazing."

"He looks like a giant caramel with some carpet lint stuck to the top of it.

Laura Ruby

#3. SOPA has been described as hitting a carpet tack with a sledgehammer. But technology was a sledgehammer to the music industry, one that allowed digital distributors like Apple to grow rich.

Peter Lerangis

#4. When there was nothing left inside, he laid his head down on the carpet and stared at the wooden railing. He was even emptier than before. How was it possible that hollowness could dig so deep?

Jeyn Roberts

#5. IIlike your skin because it keeps your organs from falling out onto the carpet.

Jenny Lawson

#6. [Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.

Rebecca West

#7. I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet ... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.

Elizabeth Taylor

#8. There's nothing worse than seeing someone chewing gum on the red carpet!

Shay Mitchell

#9. I like incidents of that sort, when forces that are usually so sneaky and hard to point out slither out of the grass and are as obvious as, say, an anaconda that's eaten a cow or an elephant turd on the carpet.

Rebecca Solnit

#10. Life had jerked the carpet out from underneath us and left a shattered mess

John Corwin

#11. There was a faded brown stain on the carpet and I wondered if a patient had once taken a shit in here in the middle of a session. I

David Wong

#12. I don't write diaries and things like that, but I have a fantastic memory. I call that like a magic carpet. I can really concentrate and travel back in the past I don't know how many years from now and evoke that space if I wanted.

Francoise Gilot

#13. Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

Jeanette Winterson

#14. cleaning lady! The gunk I got out of your carpet and kitchen counters? Grrr-oss!" Sam grinned. "We'll talk about it when I get there. Bye!" He called

David Archer

#15. The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

Igor Sikorsky

#16. To be at the Oscars for 'American Sniper' and then also supporting Red Carpet Green Dress is just twice as cool for me.

Jake McDorman

#17. I wear no makeup in real life. I'm very simple. That may be why I go over the top for the red carpet. But otherwise, I'm very plain. I should make more of an effort, actually.

Eva Green

#18. I actually met Deadmau5 for the first time on the red carpet in Hollywood for the Grammys. I was there with my daughter, and he introduced himself to me. He said, 'Hey, I'm from Toronto.' I had a little conversation with him, and then I realized I'm talking to a guy with a giant mouse head.

Paul Shaffer

#19. Did you see a doctor? (Syn) Yeah. It'll heal. (Cruel) Did your mom say anything? (Syn) Clean the blood out of the carpet before it sets. What could she say? Better me than her. (Cruel)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. I could never toe the party line. I'd wear out the carpet crossing the floor.

Hazel McCallion

#21. I don't like dressing up, and I don't like putting on make-up or doing the red carpet. The only red carpet events I go to are if I'm supporting a friend.

Gina Bellman

#22. The carpet was so thick I could have made carpet angels.

Stephen Altrogge

#23. Hitler was known among his intimates as the carpet-eater, because he often threw himself on the floor in a kicking and screaming fit like an epileptic rage.

Joost A.M. Meerloo

#24. Dolly is a legend. Jessica is so beautiful. I take it as a big compliment when people put me beside them. About being compared to Dolly Parton & Jessica Simpson on the Idol red carpet.

Kellie Pickler

#25. Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet.

Virginia Woolf

#26. The red carpet is very important. You have to be very careful to have the right person dressed in right way. For me, it has to be a perfect look.

Carolina Herrera

#27. I care about what I look like on the red carpet.

Ice Cube

#28. I don't work with a stylist, I don't work with a glam squad to get me together for the red carpet, I really enjoy the time it takes to do it myself, to choose my clothes and do my own makeup and my own hair.

Dita Von Teese

#29. The red carpet stuff is brilliant because it's so fun. In terms of exposure, I think it's something that you can never get used to because you don't know what you're being exposed to at all times. You just don't know what to expect.

George Sampson

#30. I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up ... This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures.

Annie Leibovitz

#31. Some of the 'worst' red carpet looks of all time, it turns out, were really just ahead of their time.

Brad Goreski

#32. Our path to Palestine will not be covered with a red carpet or with yellow sand. Our path to Palestine will be covered with blood ... In order that we may liberate Palestine, the Arab nation must unite, the Arab armies must unite, and a unified plan of action must be established

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#33. Everyone wants to go to the party and the red carpet, but my life is 90% the work.

Bret Michaels

#34. Eli sat down on the carpet, humiliated. He had lost his touch. Too many years of comfortable existence with Pat. He was rusty, couldn't scare a six-year-old.

Michael Phillip Cash

#35. I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last month to promote 'Wuthering Heights,' I told my boyfriend beforehand 'I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.' Actually once I was there, it was fine.

Kaya Scodelario

#36. I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.

Emily Blunt

#37. In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.

Stanley Hauerwas

#38. The bottom line is that red carpet helps us broaden the appeal of the brand. Calvin Klein used to be about a very specific woman, but we've dressed so many different women at awards.

Francisco Costa

#39. Some people are not just afraid of snakes, they're phobic. The technical term for a snake phobia is ophidiophobia, and people who have it dream of snakes, see snakes under every rock or rumple in the carpet, and freak out when they see snakes on TV.

James Patterson

#40. There's no way I could ring up a company that was lending me a red-carpet dress and say, 'Do you have it in a 10?' Because all the press samples are an 8 - I would say a 'small 8.'

Romola Garai

#41. She stared at the melted wheelchair, then the smoldering remains of the bouquet on the carpet. "Did I - ?" "Decide those daisies needed to die?" I finished. "Yes, you did.

Rick Riordan

#42. She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading. She would most diligently work at furnishing her empty mind. She would sternly endeavour to train it not to jump.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#43. I really like the risk takers. I like people who make those different choices on the carpet. I really like Charlize Theron. I think she's elegant and edgy as well. I love Zoe Saldana.

Genesis Rodriguez

#44. You can't carpet bomb ISIS if you don't have planes and bombs to attack them with. And if we continue those cuts that we're doing , not to mention additional cuts, we are going to be left with the oldest and the smallest Air Force this country has ever had, and that leaves us less safe.

Marco Rubio

#45. I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.

Victoria Beckham

#46. The double chin's not good for the red carpet.

Missy Elliott

#47. I began filmmaking in high school, at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. My first documentary was about a dysfunctional obese middle-aged carpet cleaner named Bill, who lived with his Mom, and his love affair with Anna, a drug-addicted prostitute. I made that when I was 16.

Yony Leyser

#48. The sun sets, the strange clouds glowing eerily like a full moon laced with arsenic and occult warnings.
Eternity stretches out her mocking red carpet, hinting at the long lonely walk of regret I have ahead of me.

Poppet

#49. I have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.

Jewel

#50. The smell of the carpet in a hotel room is the same everywhere.

Linda Ronstadt

#51. The Carpet was full of life, but it did not know it was alive. It could be, but it could not think. It did not even know what it was. And so from the dust came us, the Carpet People. We gave the Carpet its name, and named the creatures, and the weaving was complete.

Terry Pratchett

#52. 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

#53. People are looking more and more to Hollywood for fashion trends: who got dressed in what, and what was on the red carpet. Hollywood is becoming a big advertisement.

Reem Acra

#54. I spilled some vodka on the carpet, and I vacuumed it up, and the vacuum got drunk. I had to take the Hoover to detox.

Mitch Hedberg

#55. Does anyone know why Will left? Charlotte demanded, standing at the head of a long table around which the rest of them were seated. Cecily, her hands folded demurely before her, suddenly became very interested in the pattern of the carpet.

Cassandra Clare

#56. His skeptical silence made me shift uncomfortably. I felt like Aladdin, holding his hand out to Jasmine on the magic carpet. A ridiculous comparison under the given circumstances, and yet oddly apt.

Nenia Campbell

#57. If you're at the Oscars, there's not a man on that red carpet who is not wearing make-up. Most straight actors I know get quite used to it. Even when they go out in real life they grab some sort of bronzer and they throw it on. They dye their eyebrows, they dye their lashes - they know the tricks.

Tom Ford

#58. I find vacuuming very therapeutic. I like the lines it makes on the carpet.

Christine Taylor

#59. As a woman, and as somebody in the public eye, we always have to be ready for the red carpet and have the nicest outfit, work with the best makeup artist. While all that's nice, we're also human beings.

Sasha Grey

#60. October passed. Leaves that his mother had once looked at loosened from the trees and twisted through the air, gathering in a slippery carpet at Byron's feet.

Rachel Joyce

#61. The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.

Shania Twain

#62. I was looking at my sneakers and making my feet alternately pigeon-toed and then penguin-toed on the bedroom's blue carpet.

David Foster Wallace

#63. Your darkest moments are not meant to be swept under the carpet, hidden from the world in the silent pursuit of perfection. The darkness you've overcome is your ticket into leadership. It's what you're meant to light up in the world.

Vironika Tugaleva

#64. There is definitely a comeback of the idea of dressing well every day. Nowadays, suits can be worn for many occasions - to work or to school, to a dinner party or red carpet event.

Brunello Cucinelli

#65. It's not like a tree where the roots have to end somewhere, it's more like a song on a policeman's radio, how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another apple to slice into pieces.

Richard Siken

#66. I promise to tidy up before company arrives, wouldn't want my socks and daydreams all over the carpet

Sarah Kay

#67. Next time
we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren!

Leonard Leventon

#68. The buildings appear to be glued together, mostly small houses and apartment blocks that looked nervous. There is murky snow spread out like carpet. There is concrete, empty hat-stand trees, and gray air.

Markus Zusak

#69. Y'know when your dog drags its butt across the carpet leaving a stain- It's not as easy as it looks ... "

Josh Stern

#70. I love to love. However, you won't see anybody walking the red carpet with me until I'm married.

Aeriel Miranda

#71. Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

Hailee Steinfeld

#72. I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you've got to have a picture on the wall.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#73. I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.

Michael Weatherly

#74. A few blossoms float into the room. They drop like frayed yellow ribbons on the gray carpet.

Eileen Granfors

#75. There's this whole sexy thing that happens to women when we walk the red carpet, and it's all okay! At home, I am so many other things! I am just a girl dreaming. I am emotional and goofy.

Zulay Henao

#76. I'm not going to ride on a magic carpet!" he hissed. "I'm afraid of grounds!" "You mean heights," said Conina. "And stop being silly." "I know what I mean! It's the grounds that kill you!" The

Terry Pratchett

#77. Dropping my head I stare at the carpet, counting to four, waiting.It takes nine long seconds for her to find the courage to crawl around the couch, halting on all fours to stare at my feet, never once looking higher than my knees.

Poppet

#78. I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.

Ryne Sandberg

#79. Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.

Lupita Nyong'o

#80. your pen sticks upright by the nib in the carpet. If there were a cat to swing or a wife to murder now would be the time. So

Virginia Woolf

#81. I want to tell this right. I was thirty-eight years old. I had spent my entire adult life reading meanings into other people's stories, finding the figure in the carpet, the order in things. God in the details and no place else.

John Burnham Schwartz

#82. I am so sorry. I wish you knew even one tenth of one percent of how sorry I am ... It was my fault. Can I kill myself here, or should I do it outside, so the mess on your carpet doesn't upset your mother?

Laurie Halse Anderson

#83. your window.' There was a click and a buzz and he pushed the door open. Dave walked through the doorway into a huge entrance hall. The light in the hall dimmed as the door closed behind him. A deep emerald green carpet engulfed the floor where he stood, and a distinctive

Victoria Browne

#84. As you can see," I gestured to each of my appendages, "I am just fine. No need to worry." I almost added "your pretty little head" but I wasn't in the mood to pick up my teeth from the shag carpet.

J.A. Kazimer

#85. The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.

Zooey Deschanel

#86. If Republican legislators succumb to their political addiction to compromise for the sake of getting something passed, no matter how odious, they'll be laying out the red carpet of inevitability for socialized care. Once government gets its foot in the door, more government control is unavoidable.

David Limbaugh

#87. There was carpet under Blanchefleur's feet and the scent of clean and delicate things in her nostrils - perfume, babies, soap, and tea. Homesickness hit her like a clenched fist; this was worse than memory.

Suzannah Rowntree

#88. The days of red carpet disasters are kind of over.

Trinny Woodall

#89. They never ask the celebrities why they don't wear their own clothes on the red carpet.

Vera Wang

#90. There is a lady dancing on a cracked plate. A withered spider on the carpet. A piano with a full set of yellowed teeth.

Conchitina Cruz

#91. We're taking Forest to the police station, and then I'm taking the minions home with me. I'll stash them in my apartment until someone springs Forest. They haven't put the carpet down yet, and Briggs is there to babysit.

Janet Evanovich

#92. Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#93. Leaving my house and getting on to a red carpet is always crazy for me, because you have to find a way to be comfortable in the most uncomfortable situation imaginable.

Sandra Bullock

#94. I'd trade every last one of you for a moment's peace and a dog that didn't P on the carpet

Lois Greiman

#95. It is tricky because I do wear a lot of vintage on the red carpet, and usually when I'm getting ready, I'll say, 'We need to make sure that I don't look like I'm in a Scorsese film today.' Sometimes I do something a little bit more modern with my hair. You have to mix it up.

Christina Hendricks

#96. They were not permitted to so much as knock upon the door to the room in which he thought and wrote about art, but ted hadn't found a way to keep them from prowling outside it, ghostly feral creatures drinking from a pond at moonlight, their bare feet digging in the carpet ...

Jennifer Egan

#97. The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

Elia Kazan

#98. Generally for red carpet, I love to relax first. I love to work out. I love to eat well, drink tons of water beforehand, so on the night of the red carpet I feel good and ready to go. I also love to get a good body scrub.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

#99. I have been criticized a lot for not looking perfect in every photograph. I'm not embarrassed about it. I'm proud of it. If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, 'What an actress! What a faker!'

Kristen Stewart

#100. Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.

Saadi