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162 Velvet quotes by 143 unique authors

When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered… — Isabella Rossellini
The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion. — Alan Keyes
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a… — Gregory Benford
For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This… — David F. Houston
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 to escape. I… — Elizabeth Smart
Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing. — Fay Wray
Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love. — William Maxwell
The New York Times credited me with the rediscovery and revival of red velvet cake. I consider this as one of my great life achievements. — Robert Harling
From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to… — Pablo Neruda
Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening… — Edward Hoagland
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for… — Diane Johnson
Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ...… — Michael Dirda
Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a… — Muriel Barbery
Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine” it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery! — Anna Sui
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 on the other… — Rick Yancey
My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch - a curious… — Peter Greenaway
The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of yellow sun and blue sky… — Will Christopher Baer
Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft… — Raymond Chandler
Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET. — David Lynch
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band. — Brian Eno
All any girl needs, at any time in history, is simple velvet and basic diamonds. — Eva Gabor
Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness — Mark Mirabello
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, drag my limbs… — Russell Brand
His voice was like honey and velvet. "Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty," he… — Stephenie Meyer
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long -… — Laurence Sterne

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