Silk Quotes

201 quotes by 172 authors

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while… — Abraham Cahan
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk... — Geoffrey Chaucer
A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk. — Alec Guinness
It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I… — George Foreman
International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic… — Danny Baker
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon… — Hamlin Garland
...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you would have sworn...as the white… — Mary Stewart
Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the… — John Keats
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with… — Adrienne Rich
My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust. — Jane Birkin
So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and… — Eli Wallach
Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal… — Loretta Chase
It's hard to get up at 6am when you're wearing silk pyjamas. — Marvin Hagler
Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice. — Ray Charles
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks… — Seneca the Younger
Twisting and wiring and stringing starching and curling, delicately painting spots and shadings on scraps of silk until what had been nothing more than a… — Melanie McGrath
An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in beautiful bright colors:… — Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of… — Raquel Welch
I wouldn't call it a retail store. It's a place where culture and commerce intersect. It's more like the Silk Road-a sense of exploration mixed… — Ron Pompei
I'm not averse to being tied up in silk scarves. I like a man to take charge. There's something very sexy about being submissive. — Eva Longoria

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