Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

The wise man sits on the hole in his carpet

Thomas More

What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

Thomas E. Mann

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

Roger Caras

It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.

Richard M. Nixon

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Ugo Betti

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

Robin Williams

Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!

Robin Williams

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

Samuel Johnson

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Samuel Butler

History is a bucket of ashes.

Herbie Hancock

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

Henry David Thoreau

find your eternity in each moment

Jack Vance

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

Herbert Hoover

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

Ernest Hemingway

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

Hugh Downs

Life begins when you do.

Horace

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

Horace

Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

Hank Aaron

In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Christian Morgenstern

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

Robin Wright

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

Jason Isringhausen

It's a totally different club when you have a Chris Carpenter and a Mark Mulder in the starting rotation.

Liam Clancy

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

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.

Phil Garner

It's going to be hard not to vote for Carpenter. If Roger keeps going like he's going and Carpenter keeps going like he's going, it's going to be a tough call.

Dawn Olivieri

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.

Jackie Stewart

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

Jake Gyllenhaal

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

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.

Charlize Theron

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

Jean Anouilh

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.