The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.
Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.
Aladdin, who said to his wife, I know it's not a lamp, keep rubbing! Never got a dinner!
Think of all your experiences as a huge tapestry that can be laid out in whatever pattern you wish. Each day you add a new thread to the weaving. Do you craft a curtain to hide behind, or do you fashion a magic carpet that will care you to unequaled heights?
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.
My parents knew about the story of Aladdin far before the animation film. It's a folk tale that is very prevalent in Egypt.
There's a whole beautiful world out there, and it was like riding a magic carpet, getting to know exotic, faraway places.
My celebrity crush is Princess Jasmine.
Disneyworld... is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.
