Carpet Quotations | Page 2

Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid A million buds but stay their blossoming And trustful birds have built their nests amid The shuddering boughs, and only wait to sing Till one soft shower from the south shall bid And hither tempt the pilgrim steps of Spring.

Fashion is something I've always been interested in... I used to watch the Oscars but paid no attention to the awards... It wasn't until I started attending red carpet events and was flown out to Paris for my first show, and saw how much is put into it all, that I had this new appreciation for everything.

Fashion is really a place where every other industry connects, whether it's music or acting. At the end of the day, everyone is going to walk the red carpet and be interested in the fashion side of it. I think that's really cool because as a model, you get to connect with a lot of different worlds.

The wise man sits on the hole in his carpet

The room was too warm, with the sort of cat-barf-beige carpet that has been standard for meeting rooms for a millennium because it hides coffee stains.

There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

I've only been here for six months, but from everything I've heard the carpet has been there for 20-something years.

(San Antonio) rolled out the red carpet for us everywhere we went. I wish the NFL would grant them a football team, because they deserve it.

Our Simply Beautiful Tidal Wave petunias are bountiful when it comes to filling landscapes or hanging baskets. The blooms spread upward and outward spilling over containers and baskets like a thick carpet of color and texture.

Once there is a rain storm, there is a carpet of green all over the valley. There is no exposed dirt, so it really holds the soil in place.

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.

As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me.

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.

Ask yourself why a red carpet is red. It could be any colour.

Your wedding is your red carpet moment, and while brides definitely can take some chances with style, you don't want to look like a fad.

You put your trust in the church. You put your trust in the pastors. You don't expect things to be swept under the carpet or hidden.

They had no bags, no tubing but this is what they've been stuck with. It's really bothersome to me, what patients are suffering. The carpet that they were standing on has been ripped out from under them.

They're going for the red carpet look, and more for what's in style. They know what it was like to be girls in tight braids, and they don't want that anymore.

There's a pad underneath the carpet. It would definitely have to be changed it if was wet, no way around it. You can tell if that was new and that would be a sign that the carpet was wet at one time.

As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.

It's just never been in my nature to go out there and go on a red carpet to say, 'Oh, publicize me!'

It's all about creativity and imagination. You can take old carpet tiles, wrap them around a 2-by-4 and you've got a cat-scratching post.

I told them I'm going to have more fun than any other head coach in the NCAA Tournament, and I want you guys to have more fun than any other team. When I said that, I'm not sure exactly what I meant, but boy, it's sure been true. ... It's been an absolutely fantastic magic carpet ride.

It's more than just a game. It's five days of events, some of which extend beyond the ballpark. People who can't get to the festivities will be able to actually see the players and their wives parading on a red carpet like they were arriving at the Oscars. We're going to showcase the city. We're going to decorate it in ways never seen before.

It just makes me sick to see this. This was a nice little house. We spent money to fix it up. We put new carpet in. The stove was new.

It's always nerve wracking. Any red carpet is always nerve wracking.

It may not be something that you will see as obvious on the red carpet but (lingerie) is something that is very close to every woman.

Its like the old economic theory about money ? bad gossip, it seems, drives out good gossip. We get every detail of the dress that the latest anorexic bombshell on the red carpet is wearing. We know entirely too much about these people.

It's funny, one of my most solid carpet moments happened in the very beginning, before I started thinking that I needed all these other people to do my hair and makeup, and pick out my clothes. I wore a cheetah sweater and a red hat, and it's one of my favorite looks, even still.

It's great to remind yourself where it all began, ... My life has been like a magic carpet ride ever since.

It sounds cliche, but I'm mostly androgynous in what I wear. I'll wear a lot of tomboy clothes but still dress glam if I have a red carpet event. It's a bit of a mix, but mostly androgynous.

It's a magic carpet that can take you anyplace.

Any time you have a grand opening, have to walk the red carpet and have the commissioner talk to us -- any time that happens you are going to be excited,

The cool thing is that these are young professionals who are developing their careers, who will be driving, flying and taking a bus to Columbia from all parts of the country to spend a weekend here. So I hope Columbia, like we do with almost everything, rolls out the proverbial red carpet and welcomes these young professionals.

I'm not saying that if there is something horrible in the world we shouldn't draw attention to it hide my head under the carpet like a big ostrich.

I'm not particularly good at 'celebrity'; I don't think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I've never been one for the red carpet and don't put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.

I have something in my book about the red carpet divas and the red carpet demons. Helen Hunt is not a giver on the red carpet. She's a little cranky.

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground -- not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

If you let everyone walk over you, you become a carpet

In the spring, the carpet flowered amid the green, and as wind blew, it looked like music on the ground.

I like to be creative with my red carpet outfits, but equally, sometimes I am just in the mood to go all out with a ball gown and heels - but only If you get me on the right day!

I like to walk into a house and go, 'Rip up the brown shag carpet and open up that wall with some French doors.'

In TV, you have no time and sort of just carpet bomb the scene with as many angles as possible as quickly as possible and find it in the edit.

If your friend says of some picture, "Yes, but what does it mean?" ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his shoes

If your friend says of some picture, ""Yes, but what does it mean?"" ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his shoes

In my view it could be a carpet of development from Tampa to Orlando. Without protection and public ownership, it would have happened already.

Inexpensive new carpet always looks better than the best old carpet.

I never understood who all those people are behind the actors! When you see them on the red carpet on TV, you go, 'Why does that person need such a large entourage?' And then you realize that every single person there has a role to play.

I had Cooper in December and was back on the red carpet in January. I picked him up and took him to work with me, you know, took him to my dressing room. So he's been raised the same way I was, which is that work is such a big part of our lives.

I always used to say this when we won, it's not easy going to the playoffs, ... I think now these guys are realizing that they've been on a little bit of a carpet ride. You kind of take that for granted.

I didn't even know I was considered plus-size until I was on the red carpet here in L.A. one day and a lady said, 'How do you feel about being a plus-sized girl in Hollywood?' I was like, 'What's she talking about?'

For NASCAR Nation, the aim is a little different - we want to take NASCAR fans away from the track, giving them a feel for the true celebrity status of the competitors, ... We've been on the red carpet in Hollywood, thrown out first pitches at major league baseball games and traveled to the sets of commercial and music video shoots. The show's motto says it all - it's life beyond the fast lane.

I like when red carpets are over. I hate red carpets in general. I don't understand them.

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

I feel like my style is very much androgynous. It's rock, chic, like casual wear, but then on the flip side to that, being that it's so androgynous, it'll either be skinny jeans and a leather jacket, or if I'm doing a red carpet or event, I'll completely flip that and be wearing a suit or a dress.

I am 45, and I am not ready for carpet slippers and 10:30 bedtimes, but I am middle-aged.

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.

I've braved the red carpet when I didn't feel comfortable, and when I look at the pictures, it always shows!

People I've interviewed say they're terrified there may be boycotts of their [the Kochs] products, which include so many household items that everybody's familiar with, things like Stainmaster Carpet and Dixie Cups and Brawny paper towels and Lycra.

My office is trashed,” he grumped as he squished across his damp carpet and took the coffee that I was holding out to him. “Why are you smiling? My fish are dead.

To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying

Apparently I don't do stairs, I won't walk on carpet and I refuse to walk on grass. How do I do to get around, hover?

The Trump name is associated with the best possible quality in everything from the carpet and glass to the construction. And 80 percent means break even. Your risk is zero. What this means to me is that this project will move forward.

The first 'Wii Fit' games I tried were the slalom and ski jumping. I believe my spectacular failures here had more to do with the board resting on thick carpet than my shoddy balance.

The guys were right with them at halftime. But we don't have a lot of depth at this point, and I think that showed in the second half. But we kept fighting. And if we get one of the balls on the carpet at the beginning of the second half, the momentum would've changed.

The first red carpet I did was at New York's Paris Theatre... It was this beautiful night, and everyone is screaming my name. I'm the least pretentious actress you can ever meet. Someone said to me that I look like I've been doing this forever, and I said that's because I watch E!

The carpet had some water damage, and it had to be replaced, so we took the opportunity to remodel and expand the casino.

The carpet fibers are evidence Boney was in the house.

There is no red tapism in my state, only red carpet.

A musical sweeps you along, like you're on a magic carpet ride of sorts. But you have to keep up.

My best feature is unfortunately a private matter, although I'm told it is spectacular. But you can't really walk it down the red carpet. What can I say?

The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous.

You don't have to be famous to live out your own red carpet moment.

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

I turned into the helicopter the red carpet was rolled up. The White House was behind us now.

I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded.

Bombeck's Rug Rule: an ugly carpet will last for ever.

It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.

All shuffle there; all cough in ink;All wear the carpet with their shoes;All think what other people think;All know the man their neighbour knows,Lord, what would they sayDid their Catullus walk that way?

LOVE will lay a carpet of treasures under your feet.

People would pull the rug out from under me. So I learnt how to dance on a moving carpet.