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«The helicopter approaches closer than any other [vehicle] to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.»
«There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.»
Author: Angela Carter (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: carpet
«My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.»
«The wise man sits on the hole in his carpet»
Author: Persian Proverb | Keywords: carpet, The Hole
«My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.»
«Sing-Sing has several men who were sent there simply because they had Axminster desires and rag-carpet capacities»
«To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.»
«Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in the carpet.»
Author: Henry James | Keywords: carpet, strung
«The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.»
«I turned into the helicopter the red carpet was rolled up. The White House was behind us now.»

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