Velvet Quotes - Page 8

• You’re like Marilyn Monroe,’ Ken tells me, which I take as a compliment and say a nervous “Thank You”. Interrupting, he adds, ‘You’re all velvet and Velcro. Men want you because you’re sexy and broken and when it gets too rough they can say “Hey! This toy is broken!” and toss you aside without feeling bad.

  Emma Forrest

  Sexy, Men, Broken

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• I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. "Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.

  Laurie R. King

  Dark, Giving, Curiosity

  Laurie R. King (2010). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice”, p.151, Allison & Busby

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• Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

  Jonathan Swift

  Fashion, Female, Lexicon

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1604, Delphi Classics

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• 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 Williams

  Real, Tears, Use

  Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.35, Marshall Cavendish

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• I think vampires have gotten maybe a little bit silly in the last years where they're all wearing crushed velvet and reading poetry and making sweet love to their victims, you know, it's not really all that scary.

  Josh Hartnett

  Sweet, Silly, Reading

  "Interview: Josh Hartnett Talks 30 Days of Night". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 1, 2007.

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• Love, whose month is ever May,
  Spied a blossom passing fair,
  Playing in the wanton air:
  Through the velvet leaves the wind,
  All unseen can passage find;
  That the lover, sick to death,
  Wish'd himself the heaven's breath.

  William Shakespeare

  Air, Wind, Sick

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1847). “Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life”

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• In the '70s, anybody who was a connoisseur of collecting vinyl had the velvet brush. Remember the velvet brush? It would clean the record, and you would only grab the record from the sides and you would carefully slide it into the jacket. I never had a velvet brush.

  Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

  Records, Sides, Slides

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can't. Well, there's also velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.

  Janet Jackson

  Knowing, Feelings, Rope

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• I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

  Demetri Martin

  Rope, Television

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. November 29, 2006.

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• I grew up in the '90s. I listened to a lot of The Clash, Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. I wasn't into Boyzone, or anything.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Grew Up, Clash, Velvet Underground

  Source: collider.com

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• My favorite color is purple. I have a huge velvet purple comforter on my bed.

  Meredith Brooks

  Color, Purple, Bed

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• You might be a redneck if your favorite Christmas present was a painting on black velvet.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Black, Might

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• When the pangs shoot through our body, and ghastly death appears in view, people see the patience of the dying Christian. Our infirmities become the black velvet on which the diamond of God's love glitters all the more brightly. Thank God I can suffer ! Thank God I can be made the object of shame and contempt, for in this way God shall be glorified.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Views, People

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Family, Mean, Hands

  Song: Leader of the band

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• God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Max Lucado (2013). “You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Dog, Self Esteem, Vanity

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.17

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• My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet they are dry. They have weight, but they are light. Airy, yet substantial. Earth, air, fire, water; velvet and elastic! Meat, wheat and magic! They are our family glory!

  Robert P. T. Coffin

  Food, Fire, Light

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• 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

  Attitude, Gay, Cozy

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• What exists beneath the sea?I'd always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among plankton.But, when my eyes adjust, I see gray stones, lost anchors, wet wood, buttons, hooks, and eyes, the salem witches who wouldn't float, stars and stripes, missing vessels, windup toys, the souls of Romeo and Juliet, peaches, cream, pistons, screams, cages of ribs and birds, tunnels, nutcracker soldiers, satin bows, drugstore signs, Pandora box ripped open at its hinges.

  Kelly Easton

  Stars, Eye, Color

  Kelly Easton (2001). “The Life History of a Star”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that

  Scott Weiland

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fancy Cars, Anxiety, Heaven

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.60

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• 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

  Opposites, Television, Soup

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• A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Christian, Bricks, Covered

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• David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet

  Isabella Rossellini

  Girl, Sorry, Blue

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• Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.

  Chuck Eddy

  Beautiful, Country, Long

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