Velvet Quotes - Page 4

• But the warriors true, the brave of heart Who valiently upheld the right They are raised on high to the velvet sky Bringing light to the darkness of night

  Brian Jacques

  Heart, Warrior, Night

  Brian Jacques (2007). “High Rhulain”, p.263, Penguin

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• On the plus side, if he ever had to fight through a roomful of adolescent girls, he only needed to blink (his velvet brown eyes framed in embarassingly long lashes) a few times, and they would all faint.

  Ilona Andrews

  Girl, Eye, Fighting

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• I sing of a woman with ink on her hands and pictures hidden beneath her hair. I sing of a dog with skin like velvet pushed the wrong way.I sing of the shape a fallen body makes in the dirt beneath a tree, and I sing of an ordinary man who is wanted to know things no human being could tell him.This is the true beginning.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Dog, Men, Hair

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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• You should see what she’s wearing, Callie. It’s velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana.

  Sarah MacLean

  Yellow, Looks, Bananas

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• I said,'Instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women singers are going in [revealing], I'll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet...I will have mystique.

  Stevie Nicks

  Inspiring, Sexy, Women

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• Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.

  Diane Johnson

  Travel, Thinking, Islands

  Diane Johnson (1993). “Natural opium: some travelers' tales”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine” it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!

  Anna Sui

  Discovery, Thrill, Excitement

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• What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited on the other side of the horizon, where the stars burned undimmed in the velvet sky above his head and the virgin ground lay untrodden beneath his feet?

  Rick Yancey

  Dream, Stars, Adventure

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch - a curious American-European film-maker. He has - against odds - achieved what we want to achieve here. He takes great risks with a strong personal voice and adequate funds and space to exercise it. I thought Blue Velvet was a masterpiece.

  Peter Greenaway

  Strong, Exercise, Odds

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

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• Dear Alec and Magnus, I known we're not really close, but Isabelle just came by to drop off a pleated orange velvet tux that she claims I will be wearing to your wedding. Is this true, and if so, why orange? -Simon

  Cassandra Clare

  Orange, Alec And Magnus, Claims

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• The New York Times credited me with the rediscovery and revival of red velvet cake. I consider this as one of my great life achievements.

  Robert Harling

  New York, Cake, Achievement

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• I love leather and I love lace, but not necessarily together. I'm probably happiest in a long black velvet dress, black suede boots, and some kind of really beautiful wrap than I am in anything else. I don't even own a pair of jeans.

  Stevie Nicks

  Beautiful, Jeans, Long

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• Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.

  Lana Del Rey

  Syrup, Hitting, Bleeding

  Song: Velvet Crowbar

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• Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.

  James Leonard Gordon

  Kindness, Social, Intercourse

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• Sometimes I come here just to be a lost mariner
  but I am never lost:
  there are the snowflakes frozen to the porthole of a jewelry store,
  here is the treasure chest open to a single pearl
  laid on a velvet slab,
  there is the plashing of faces in the aisles
  and the row of lockers stuffed with the coats and hats of the drowned
  and it is night, and the moon rows over
  the gentle waters of the parking lot.

  Nancy Eimers

  Moon, Night, Water

  Nancy Eimers (2006). “A Grammar to Waking: Poems”, Carnegie-Mellon University Press

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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

  Blue, Shoes, Pairs

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• International correspondents with their long dictaphones, and dirty jeans, and five hundred words before whiskey, are slouched over the red velvet chairs, in the VIP section in the front, looking for the Story: the Most Macheteing Deathest, Most Treasury Corruptest, Most Entrail-Eating Civil Warest, Most Crocodile-Grinning Dictatorest, MOst Heart-Wrenching and Genociding Pulitzerest, Most Black Big-Eyed Oxfam Child Starvingest, Most Wild African Savages Having AIDS-Ridden Sexest with Genetically Mutilatedest Girls...The Most Authentic Real Black Africanest story they can find.

  Binyavanga Wainaina

  Girl, Children, Real

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• When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.

  Evan Dando

  Years, Sick, Fans

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• That makes me think of spandex-covered football players. It's not me. I'm in rhinestones and velvet, not spandex.

  Johnny Weir

  Football, Player, Thinking

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• When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered cow hanging in a butcher shop as well as disturbingly appealing.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Sex, Clothes, Blue

  Isabella Rossellini (1997). “Some of Me”, Random House Incorporated

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• The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

  Alan Keyes

  Love You, Heart, Government

  Alan Keyes' Speech at Renew America rally at the McKay Events Center in Orem, Utah, www.keyesarchives.com. March 8, 2000.

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• 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

  Crops, States, Beans

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• How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Wings, Bird, Relief

  Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage

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• Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

  Fay Wray

  Rocks, Tree, Surfing

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• There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

  Gregory Benford

  Real, Math, Iron

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