Carpet Pages

Famous quotes containing the words carpet and/or pages:

    “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.”
    —John Cheever (1912–1982)

    “Paper is soft and ink is fluid; it might be better if some pages of this chronicle could be written on chips of granite at the point of steel.”
    —E. M. Almedingen (b. 1898–?)