“ An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life. ”
- Jacques Prévert- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell you a story," and then he passes the hat. ”
- Robertson Davies- Copy
- 305
“ I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere. ”
- Mariah Carey- Copy
- 2.4K
“ There's a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from being in the church 27 years. Oh, yeah. ”
- Al Green- Copy
- 3.7K
“ To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn. ”
- A. J. Liebling- Copy
- 2.6K
“ A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. ”
- Mignon McLaughlin- Copy
- 1.9K
“ I can either side with what I think is right as far as corruption is concerned, or I can wipe it under the rug. The nature of this job is you either make people mad as a result of events and investigations, or you make them happy by sugar-coating it and sweeping it under the rug… ”
- Ben Chandler- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Our homes were very decorative, full of pattern, like inexpensive throw rugs. It must have had some influence, all this color and everything. Because we were so poor the people used this as a means of brightening their life. I used to do bright patterns after these throw rugs; I got ideas from them, the arabesques, the movement and so on. ”
- Jacob Lawrence- Copy
- 2.6K
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