Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robertson Davies

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

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.

Oliver Perez

I know Carpenter is a good pitcher. I was trying to go deep into the game, hold them and try to help the team.

Charles Lee

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

Melissa Rivers

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'm being taught the carpentry skills. I'm being taught how to level stuff off and to cut stuff and measurement and the difference kinds of wood.

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

Timothy Egan

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

Jennifer Hudson

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?'

Drew Goddard

Clearly, the works of John Carpenter and Sam Raimi are front and center here. Argento is definitely there. But even stuff like the 'Friday the 13th' movies had quite an influence on me growing up.

Pablo Neruda

What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

James Jeans

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

Joe Horn

(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.

Jason Isringhausen

Of course we're better off. We got Carpenter healthy, and we got Mark Mulder. I'm not taking anything away from the other guys, but those two guys at the front of the rotation? They're pretty good.

Terry Hall

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.

Hailee Steinfeld

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.

Steve Scott

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.

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.

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.

This place is known for its linebackers - great linebackers - and with Hawk, Carpenter and Schlegel, that's three of them right there. My mindset since I got here is to come in, work as hard as I can, learn the system, and hopefully earn a starting spot. There's a lot of competition, but that should make all of us better.

Reem Acra

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 name it. We have been known to do carpentry and a lot of landscaping, painting.

Juan Vargas

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

Sean Pertwee

I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.

Gigi Hadid

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.

Amy Stephens

We didn't jell right away, and in a lot of ways I was tougher on her than some of the kids that did leave the program. She was called on the carpet in a lot of areas, but she met those challenges head-on.

Rhys Ifans

Very often, actors have to face being rejected time and again, and we must remember that the red carpet lasts just a minute.

Adlai Stevenson

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

John Barnes

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.