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• I love meetings with suits. I live for meetings with suits. I love them because I know they had a really boring week and I walk in there with my orange velvet leggings and drop popcorn in my cleavage and then fish it out and eat it. I like that. I know I'm entertaining them and I know that they know.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Intelligent, Orange, Levels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Hands, Purple, Erotic

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Colors Passing Through Us”, p.132, Knopf

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• From the distance of the moon, Earth was four times the size of a full moon seen from Earth. It was a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Distance, Moon, Jewels

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• Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

  Robin Hobb

  Gloves, Fists, Cloaks

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate”, p.3219, Del Rey

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• My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.

  Molly Sims

  Birthday, Mom, Cake

  "Molly Sims: Fab for fall". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.cnn.com. September 6, 2010.

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• I still love red velvet cake.

  Molly Sims

  Cake, Red, Stills

  "Molly Sims: Fab for Fall". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.health.com. April 26, 2011.

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• For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman can choose from an army of personae, femme to butch, and can cut or curl her hair or adorn herself with a staggering variety of artistic aids. But despite the Sixties experiments in peacock dress, no man can rise in the corporate world today, outside the entertainment industry, with long hair or makeup or purple velvet suits.

  Camille Paglia

  Fashion, Cutting, Army

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• As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.

  Henry Rollins

  Appreciation, Light, White

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• It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are no family photographs, No rings through the nose, no cries.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mirrors, Palaces, Noses

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Winter Trees”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Hurt, Men, Blue

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• The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of yellow sun and blue sky is unreliable. Today it may be stunning, hypnotic. Tomorrow it may be lifeless and dull, a white sky scorched with yellow. Tomorrow the sky will be velvet.

  Will Christopher Baer

  Real, Sunset, Blue

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• That's the words: "So I'm back to the velvet underground" - which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis Joplin got her clothes, and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, it was this little hole in the wall, amazing, beautiful stuff - "back to the floor that I love, to a room with some lace and paper flowers, back to the gypsy that I was."

  Stevie Nicks

  Beautiful, Wall, Flower

  "Stevie Nicks On Her Favorite Songs: A Music Mix Exclusive". Interview with Leah Greenblatt, www.ew.com. March 31, 2009.

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• The clothes I wear... that doesn't change. I love long dresses. I love velvet. I love high boots. I never change. I love the same eye make-up. I'm not a fad person. I still have everything I had then. That's one part of me... that's where my songs come from. There's a song on the new Fleetwood Mac album [Mirage] that says, 'Going back to the velvet underground/back to the floor that I love,' because I always put my bed on the floor. 'To a room with some lace and paper flowers/ back to the gypsy that I was.'

  Stevie Nicks

  Song, Flower, Eye

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• Overhead was a sky blacker than jewlers' velvet, and a billion stars screamed down.

  Stephen King

  Stars, Sky, Billions

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• 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

  Taken, Feet, Way

  Laurence Sterne (1800). “A sentimental journey through France and Italy: to which are added the letters to Eliza”, p.92

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• love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Heart, Love Is, Rocks

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• I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Important, Band

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• I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

  Courtney Love

  Thinking, Band, Records

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness

  Mark Mirabello

  Fall, Self, Darkness

  Mark Mirabello (2005). “The Cannibal Within”, p.59, Mandrake

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• Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. No flower, feather or fabric, can match that velvet whisper of flesh. No matter how unequal they may be in any other ways, all women, old and young, fat and thin, beautiful and ugly, have that perfection. It's a great part of the reason why men hunger to possess women, and so often convince themselves that they do possess them: the thigh, that touch.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Beautiful, Flower, Men

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• Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of us quite alone, and that's what I try to paint.

  Thomas S. Buechner

  Mirrors, Black, Trying

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• Walk with me to the edge of the city, / Take off your shoes and feel the earth. / Remember who you are. You are a star. / A mountain, that fountain in the sun. / Your heart is the velvet cave / Where birds sing.

  Julia Cameron

  Stars, Heart, Journey

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• There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.

  Janet Jackson

  Two, Sides, Rope

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• My other hobby, because I just love any job with a gavel, is auctioneer. And I so often have presided over charity auctions in New York that many years ago Sotheby's sent me my own gavel. Now, the Sotheby's gavel is infinitely more elegant--it came in a little velvet bag, with "Sotheby's" inscribed in gold. It hangs in my library. I feel that everyone has occasion to use a gavel at various times everyday, they just don't think of it.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Jobs, New York, Thinking

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