Silk Quotes

• Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Hands, Doe, Body

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• With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Patience, Perseverance, Chinese

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.

  Al Stewart

  Running, Rain, Expression

  Song: The Year Of The Cat

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• An old meaning of the word 'restoration' is to find someone with a royal bloodline who has been removed from the throne and then restore the person to that throne - to a position of honor.

  Danny Silk

  Honor, Thrones, Restoration

  Danny Silk (2009). “Culture of Honor: Sustaining a Supernatural Enviornment”, p.79, Destiny Image Publishers

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• When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman

  Audrey Hepburn

  Beautiful, Scarves, Feels

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• From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Cocoons, Sugar

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• And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

  Arthur Golden

  Feelings, Body, Might

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.187, Random House

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• The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

  Wallace Stevens

  Poetry, Dresses, Worms

  1957 Opus Posthumous, Aphorisms,'Adagia'.

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• Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.

  Etheridge Knight

  Love, Rocks, Wind

  Etheridge Knight (1980). “Born of a woman: new and selected poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.

  Oriana Fallaci

  True Power, Voice, Long

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• Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Skins, Care, Scar

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15”, p.15, Penguin

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• Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Real, Waiting, Wool

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• What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories.

  Theodora Goss

  Stories, World, Turns

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day, I received an SMS from a friend in New York - she was in a taxi on the way to court to face her arsehole ex-husband, and she said to me 'Alber, I am wearing a Lanvin dress, and I feel so protected.' That to me was the biggest compliment I ever received. To have a 500 gram piece of silk make her feel protected - that made me very happy indeed.

  Alber Elbaz

  New York, Husband, One Day

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• You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

  Joseph Stalin

  Anger, Gloves, Revolution

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• It's more difficult getting up early in the morning when you're wearing silk pajamas.

  Eddie Arcaro

  Funny, Morning, Humor

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• Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Iron, Chains

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• Soft you day, be velvet soft, My true love approaches, Look you bright, you dusty sun, Array your golden coaches. Soft you wind, be soft as silk My true love is speaking. Hold you birds, your silver throats, His golden voice I'm seeking. Come you death, in haste, do come My shroud of black be weaving, Quiet my heart, be deathly quiet, My true love is leaving.

  Maya Angelou

  Heart, Love Is, Wind

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.18, Random House

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• By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

  Martha Ostenso

  Morning, Rain, Lakes

  Martha Ostenso (1937). “The Stone Field”, New York, Dodd

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• I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

  Anne Rice

  Halloween, Heart, Rose

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.699, Ballantine Books

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• Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.

  Lisa Birnbach

  Clothes, Wool, Looks

  Lisa Birnbach (1980). “The official preppy handbook”, Workman Publishing

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• The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Ears, Literature, Way

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• We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The world, I'm told, is like that. Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again." I think that if I had my choice, I'd prefer one of those quiet centuries," Garion said glumly. Oh, no," Silk said, his lips drawing back in a ferretlike grin. "Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.

  David Eddings

  Adventure, Thinking, Years

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• He wound the scarf around his fingers until her hand was hanging in the space between them. Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm. And Eleanor disintegrated.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Hands, Space, Scarves

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.71, Macmillan

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• The greatest sex toy ever invented may be the telephone. Sometimes there's nothing more erotic than a disembodied voice, no question more tantalizing than a whispered 'What are you wearing?' Especially when you can make up the answer. On the phone your hair always looks great, your legs are always shaved, your worst pair of underwear becomes a silk negligee.

  Meghan Daum

  Sex, Voice, Phones

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