Quotes about carpets (15 Quotes)



    You may have a throne at the royal court, with beautiful decorations and soft carpets, all sorts of luscious fruits and beautiful gardens, the excitement of the chase and princely pleasures - but still, the mind is not made happy by such illusory diversions.

    I'm not trying to turn the J. Garcia brand into something you find at Target, but I am trying to broaden it. There are J. Garcia carpets that my mother would be happy to have in her house, and she's not a Deadhead. If you were to position it only for people who were fans of Jerry's music, it would be a much smaller market than what we're going for.


    We learned the difference between an interior decorator and an interior designer. A decorator can help you pick carpets and window treatments. A designer will do your entire floor plan and traffic flow.


    Some of these children have eaten batteries, clothes, blankets, mattresses, wood, carpets, chemicals and anything they could obtain, which is why the kitchen cupboards are locked,

    To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind

    Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.

    Although we modern persons tend to take our electric lights, radios, mixers, etc., for granted, hundreds of years ago people did not have any of these things, which is just as well because there was no place to plug them in. Then along came the first Electrical Pioneer, Benjamin Franklin, who flew a kite in a lighting storm and received a serious electrical shock. This proved that lighting was powered by the same force as carpets, but it also damaged Franklins brain so severely that he started speaking only in incomprehensible maxims, such as 'A penny saved is a penny earned.' Eventually he had to be given a job running the post office.

    If the roof of your condo gets damaged, for example, and water leaks into the unit, the master policy would cover the roof repair but not individual unit repairs to things like the ceiling, walls, carpets or furniture,




    If you ever saw the original building, it was absolutely gorgeous. The red and the blue were neon at night, and the interior was flawless -- marble floors and red carpets. The seats and the curtains were red, too.

    Because my flat is near the university, the agency had no difficulty in renting it out to students. To make it more presentable, I had double glazing, central heating and new carpets put in. It all worked pretty smoothly. And my lenders - the Yorkshire Building Society - didn't add any interest because I was letting it out, as is the normal practice.



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