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… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I always write back to people who are kind enough to write to me. Actually, I don't write - I recline on… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet… — Robert P. T. Coffin Copy Share Image
When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like… — Olivia De Havilland Copy Share Image
I love meetings with suits. I live for meetings with suits. I love them because I know they had a really boring… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“What exists beneath the sea? I’d always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes… — Kelly Easton Copy Share Image
I was sat at the bottom of the garden a week ago, smoking a reflective cheroot, thinking about this and that -… — Les Dawson Copy Share Image
Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
My other hobby, because I just love any job with a gavel, is auctioneer. And I so often have presided over charity… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“The night was so balmy that breathing ceased to be a habitual sensation, becoming much closer to something like the gaseous ingestion… — Ondjaki Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. No flower, feather… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it to some smooth… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Talking about theater, actually, I built a little barn in upstate New York, and I call it 'the smallest theater in the… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
And the sun had on a crown Wrought of gilded thistledown, And a scarf of velvet vapor And a raveled rainbow gown;… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what… — Stewart Lee Copy Share Image
I walked across the polished marble floor and sat on a red velvet lounging couch. I idly wondered how exactly one was… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
I bought a gun safe with velvet shelves and a built-in dehumidifier to house the hundreds of original [Barbara] Stanwyck letters I… — Victoria Wilson Copy Share Image
Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Life with you was lovely—and when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink ‘v’ in… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
My six favorite textures for fall and winter are leather, fur, tweed, mohair, velvet and wool. I love that they are all… — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And… — Margery Williams Copy Share Image
He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. “I thought I’d die for wanting you. — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound, Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground. — Elinor Wylie Copy Share Image
'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis. — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you. — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
Would I like to have a red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting? Yeah, I would. — Roy Hibbert Copy Share Image
Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake. — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine... — Celia Rees Copy Share Image