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
I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet… — Margaret Mitchell 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
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
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
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
In the '70s, anybody who was a connoisseur of collecting vinyl had the velvet brush. Remember the velvet brush? It would clean… — Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 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
But the warriors true, the brave of heart Who valiently upheld the right They are raised on high to the velvet sky… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to… — Gregory Benford 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 always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New… — Devendra Banhart 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
When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel. — John Weitz 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
Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany's and… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
That's the words: "So I'm back to the velvet underground" - which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Soft you day, be velvet soft, My true love approaches, Look you bright, you dusty sun, Array your golden coaches. Soft you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A Halloween-haired, Sachsgate-enacting, estuary-whining, glitter-lacquered, priapic berk How dare I, from my velvet chaise longue, in my Hollywood home like Kubla Khan,… — Russell Brand 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
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
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
