Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Silk scarves are my thing. I tie them to my handbag or thread them through belt loops or wear them in my… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!' — Cheryl Hayashi Copy Share Image
[I made in army] all sorts of dumb things, but it did teach me a lot about the silk-screen process. — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“You Westerosi are all the same. You sew some beast upon a scrap of silk, and suddenly you are all lions, or… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The silkiness of his voice was a torturous caress that I could have endured for the rest of my life.” — Melissa Andrea Copy Share Image
Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer. — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
“This is why you’re all kernels and I’m a major general. ’Cause you got corn silk in your ears.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one. — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
Before I go to bed, I twist my hair so it doesn't get knotted by morning and cover it with a silk… — Justine Skye Copy Share Image
My perspective is hard because I look at wardrobe from very much a guy's perspective. You look at my closet and I… — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If you get a bad script, then you start expending energy trying to make a silk purse of a sow's ear. When… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
“You will treat my underwear with the reverence it deserves. Next time, you will stop and appreciate--hell, you'll marvel at the miracle… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Africa and Persia. In fact, one of… — Mary McFadden Copy Share Image
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
“You're going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that noisily stake their claims in your territory… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Early this morning I read about your autumn, and all the colors you brought into your letter were changed back in my… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Father reaches out to touch my scarf. “Your mother’s scarf,” he says softly. “She loved this so very much, you know. I… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
“I wear silk -- the cover to uncover -- because silk is what I want you to think of. But I dislike… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Although the Great Leader told us that we have to let the people eat rice with meat soup, wear silk clothes and… — Kim Jong Il Copy Share Image
Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Item song dancers like Silk Smitha and Jayamalini have become irrelevant. The heroines are doing those dances themselves. — Radha Ravi Copy Share Image
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk... — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
“...skeins of mist like translucent silk, bending and unbending in the headlight tunnels...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
“In this city of concave algae ponds, my mother begins to plant bonsais, nettle and leaf: silk against the skin.” — Sneha Subramanian Kanta Copy Share Image
A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds? — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Copy Share Image