Silk Quotes

201 Silk quotes by 170 unique authors

O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon! — Marianne Moore
The evolution of the universe depends on the participation of each and every person. . . From your soul's perspective, you are as great an… — Deepak Chopra
The poet makes silk dresses out of worms. — Wallace Stevens
It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 am when you've been sleeping in silk pajamas — Marvin Hagler
Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace. — Etheridge Knight
On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating… — Al Stewart
A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown... — Yohji Yamamoto
When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman — Audrey Hepburn
Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand. — Oscar de la Renta
The creatives, they want to connect with people. These artists, the clothing designers, they want to connect with people the same way that music gets… — Kanye West
She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears;… — Virginia Woolf
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window,… — Oscar Wilde
We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti — Charles Bukowski
Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which included even a man's silk… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my… — Anthony Burgess
I think jeans have gotten away from the original meaning, that symbol of freedom; they've gone gimmicky and turned into a status item. Our denim… — Johan Lindeberg
I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took… — Alicia Sacramone
I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call… — David Walliams
A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to… — Charles C. Mann
The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is… — Joseph A. Schumpeter

Who Wrote These Silk Quotes

170 authors contributed a total of 201 Silk Quotes, led by these top contributors: