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Bombeck's Rug Rule: an ugly carpet will last for ever. -- Erma Bombeck
The only problem I've had with my Vox wah is its tendency to move around on the floor. So now it sits on a rubber mat that says in big letters, 'Kirk's Wah-Wah Rug.' -- Kirk Hammett
I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years. -- Neil Young
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. -- Helen Keller
I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go. -- Trey Anastasio
We had hoped to have been bringing you Arthur the Human Chameleon, but this afternoon, he crawled across a tartan rug and died of exhaustion. -- Ronnie Barker
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 Prevert
I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head. -- Al Gore
One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud. -- John Barrow
I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world. -- Lynn Johnston
I also believe our country made a promise to veterans and their families. Veterans have kept their end of the bargain, and now, the VA is looking to pull out the rug. -- Ellen Tauscher
Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins. -- Shel Silverstein
Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers. -- James P. Hoffa
Meditation, especially for people who don't know very much about it and think it's this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out. -- Amanda Palmer
Don't get me wrong - I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug! -- Zac Efron
The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug. -- Jim Garrison
In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human. -- Sam Abell
I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect. -- Josh Duhamel
The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug. -- Russell Simmons
Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keep coming up. -- Herschel Walker
I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up. -- Jackson Browne
People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it. -- David D. Burns
On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big. -- Jeff Bezos
I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really. -- Dave Grohl
I used to cheerlead in high school, and I had the biggest crush on one of my teammates' brothers. I was a great tumbler, so when he showed up at practice one day, I tried to impress him, but I ended up landing on my face! When I got off the ground, I had rug burn on my nose. I was in tears because it hurt so bad! -- Josie Loren
I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time. -- Nate Berkus
Puppy presents on the rug. This sucked. -- Kim Harrison
If you own a rug you own too much. -- Jack Kerouac
Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug. -- Benjamin Franklin
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug. -- Bill Condon
I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug. -- Al Gore
You might be a redneck if your birth announcement included the word rug rat. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug. -- Neal Shusterman
Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn. -- A. J. Liebling
When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. -- Rumi
Beware of people who fall at your feet. They may be reaching for the corner of the rug. -- Bill Cosby
Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet. -- Thomas Crum
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer." -- Mignon McLaughlin
Winny would spend all of his time practicing limbo. He got pretty good. He could go under a rug. -- Steven Wright
People would pull the rug out from under me. So I learnt how to dance on a moving carpet. -- Wayne Dyer
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I had this weird, nomadic little tent with a rug over it, like a booth where I'd sing the vocals. -- Neneh Cherry
My first words were 'Seconds, please.' Most kids in kindergarten napped on a little rug. I had a braided 9 x 12. -- Louie Anderson
When honor and glory get your squad killed and your brothers-in-arms shoved under the rug, you stop believing in the terms. -- Katherine McIntyre
What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget? -- Alanis Morissette
For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness. -- Potter Stewart
Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us. -- Pema Chodron
It's like America has a dog that's always shitting inside the house, and we solved the problem by getting a brown rug. -- Jon Stewart
It's up to comedians to shine the light on what's wrong in the world, and we don't want things swept under the rug. -- Jeff Ross
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's the only place in the house that has a beautiful lush shag rug, which is my favorite. -- Evangeline Lilly
I specifically ordered persian rugs with cherub imagery!!! What do I have to do to get a simple persian rug with cherub imagery uuuuugh -- Kanye West
There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious. -- Hugh Prather
Don't brush anything under the rug. Don't point fingers or do the blame game. A team is a family, and we're in this together. -- Erik Spoelstra
I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse. -- Thomas F. Wilson
It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Theres 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
We made love like a frugal rug is covered with mud. I always take off my shoes before I get in the shower. Well, almost always. -- Jarod Kintz
A blanket could be used as a lovely rug, a rug that just so happens to be covering a large hole, you should really feel this rug! -- Nicole McKay
We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards. -- Bill Shuster
The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems. -- Cal Thomas
As a nation, there are many issues we don`t talk about, we just don`t talk about, push them under the rug. Poverty is one of those issues. -- Bernie Sanders
A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug. -- Margaret Benson
When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern. -- Genevieve Gorder
I think that clothes should be a shelter like a house or a rug. I think that there is that element of protection and a uniform can be just that. -- Sonia Rykiel
I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day. -- Jodi Picoult
I like to think that Harry Cohn is having a somewhat difficult time sleeping in his grave thinking of a chick with a white shag rug taking over his space. -- Betsy Beers
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In many instances, we are much better at fixing our mistakes after we've made them. In some situations, it is easier to sweep things under the rug and forget about them. -- Dave Matthews
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
I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads. -- Jennifer Weiner
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
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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice -- Wallace Stevens
Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it. -- David Lange
What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By night a blanket, and a plaid by day. -- Oliver Goldsmith
If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't. -- Garet Garrett
There's a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that's the worst thing you can do. You kind of have to face it head on. -- Christopher Poole
I'm very happy and being raised Catholic I assume it will end tomorrow. The rug will be pulled out from under me and someone will say, now go to your real job, shoveling poop somewhere. -- Joel McHale

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