[Andrea] Leadsom has compassion ... a real steel and a real determination and that velvet glove of compassion that she really cares… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
I wore my first pair of Louboutins during this press tour. It was absolutely amazing, they weren't heels, they were little shoes,… — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Let’s hope she’s like the others, who look only at the surface. Let’s hope she’d never think that a girl with black-velvet… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
From the distance of the moon, Earth was four times the size of a full moon seen from Earth. It was a… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I grew up in the age of polyester. When I got to touch real silk, cotton and velvet, the feel of nonsynthetic… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in… — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair, Playing in the wanton air: Through the velvet leaves the wind,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“The magicked dress danced over to the princess. Despite her misgivings, she stood up to receive it- it would have been rude… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
“... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments!… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I have never said this to anyone before.” Leo’s voice was like ragged velvet. “But the idea of you with child is… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
There is no end of things in the heart. ...she understood it to mean that if you took something to heart, really… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness — Mark Mirabello Copy Share Image
When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel. — John Weitz Copy Share Image
“I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of… — Glenda Millard Copy Share Image
He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand. — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
I grew up in the '90s. I listened to a lot of The Clash, Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. I wasn't into… — Aaron Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are… — Evan Dando Copy Share Image
Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Vaclav Havel is the figure that represents the Velvet Revolution and the reunification of Europe. He will be sorely missed. — Jerzy Buzek Copy Share Image
Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of… — Thomas S. Buechner Copy Share Image
You might be a redneck if your favorite Christmas present was a painting on black velvet. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too. — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image