quotes about Velvet
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
-- Al Yankovic -
Well,I hope you like the ring." He held it out to me, he velvet lid still closed. "My mom hates it." "I'm sure I'll love it,then," I said, and he laughed.
-- Amanda Hocking -
Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine†it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!
-- Anna Sui -
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'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.
-- Anurag Kashyap -
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
-- Brian Eno -
The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band
-- Brian Eno -
When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.
-- Carolina Maria de JesusSource : Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”
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In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine...
-- Celia ReesSource : Celia Rees (2010). “Witch Child”, p.8, A&C Black
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I wore my first pair of Louboutins during this press tour. It was absolutely amazing, they weren't heels, they were little shoes, but they were velvet and they were blue.
-- Chloe Grace Moretz -
For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late.
-- David F. Houston -
There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.
-- Eloisa JamesSource : Source: articles.chicagotribune.com
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I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.
-- Enid Bagnold -
No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.
-- Ezra Koenig -
Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.
-- Frederic Raphael -
A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.
-- Frederick W. Smith -
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Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.
-- James Leonard Gordon -
Vaclav Havel is the figure that represents the Velvet Revolution and the reunification of Europe. He will be sorely missed.
-- Jerzy BuzekSource : "Quotes on the death of Vaclav Havel". The Guardian, December 18, 2011.
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Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.
-- John Milton -
Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.
-- Jonathan Swift -
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I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me
-- Kyle MacLachlan -
Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.
-- Lana Del Rey -
When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rosebuds of delights; and, having taken a few turns in it, come back strengthened and refreshed.
-- Laurence Sterne -
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As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres pancreas juice on me help me I am disintigrating.
-- Lynda Barry -
Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh....
-- Marge Piercy -
Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.
-- Margery WilliamsSource : Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.35, Marshall Cavendish
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I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.
-- Martin Gore -
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I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.
-- Olivia de Havilland -
Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.
-- Peter Bart -
Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
-- Robin Hobb -
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.
-- Sara Sheridan -
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The movie that made me want to make movies was "Blue Velvet."
-- Steven Shainberg -
He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. “I thought I’d die for wanting you.
-- Teresa MedeirosSource : Teresa Medeiros (2011). “Heather and Velvet”, p.307, Fanfare
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I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.
-- Tom Sizemore -
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Every kid should sit in the velvet at least once in their lifetime.
-- Rosie O'Donnell -
I bought a gun safe with velvet shelves and a built-in dehumidifier to house the hundreds of original [Barbara] Stanwyck letters I amassed that I first kept in the lettuce crisper of a refrigerator in my basement.
-- Victoria Wilson -
I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage.
-- Stewart LeeSource : Source: thequietus.com