Silk Quotes

201 Silk quotes by 170 unique authors

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you… — Diane Setterfield
We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The world, I'm told,… — David Eddings
I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose. — Anne Rice
We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city… — Clive Barker
It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and… — Jennifer Weiner
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in… — William S. Burroughs
In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. A girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings or glasses is… — Marshall McLuhan
I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as… — Edward Abbey
I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her starry laugh, that… — Derek Walcott
Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk. — Pat Conroy
This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some… — Dorianne Laux
â€¦words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which… — A. S. Byatt
In the dark I rest, unready for the light which dawns day after day, eager to be shared. Black silk, shelter me. I need more… — Denise Levertov
Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals… — Karen White
The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a… — Ezra Pound
A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up… — Rudyard Kipling
So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks… — Janet Frame
I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal. — Doris Lessing
I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner dress of red… — Jean Webster

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