Remnants Carpet Quotes & Sayings

As a scientist Throckmorton knew that if he were ever to break wind in the echo chamber, he would never hear the end of it — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

You are never too old for applause. What's satisfying is that I'm being appreciated for what I was trained for. — Anupam Kher

Setne laughed. "Nice try, dol. You guys sit tight. If you make it through the big shake-up, I'll come
back and get you. Maybe you can be my jesters or something. You two crack me up! But in the
meantime, I'm afraid we're done here. No miracle's gonna drop from the sky and save you."
A rectangle of darkness appeared in the air just above the ghost's head. Sadie dropped out of it.
I'll say this for my sister: she has great timing, and she's quick on the draw. She crashed into the ghost
and sent him sprawling. — Rick Riordan

It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster. — Jay Parini

And so, he knows. He wants, he needs, to do the immoral, irresponsible thing. He wants to let this boy court his own destruction. He wants to commit that cruelty. Or (kinder, gentler version) he doesn't want to reconfirm his allegiance to the realm of the sensible, all the good people who take responsibility, who go to the right and necessary parties, who sell art made of two-by-fours and carpet remnants. He wants, for at least a little while, to live in that other, darker world - Blake's London, Courbet's Paris; raucous, unsanitary places where good behavior was the province of decent, ordinary people who produced no works of genius. — Michael Cunningham

I'm saving your life!"
"You were ready to give in! I saved my own life. You are simply keeping me company on this leg of my escape. — Kiersten White

Women are not always what we seem to be. What our reputations would tell you. Nor do we only exist in reference to our fathers, husbands, and sons. — Ruth Downie