Best Velvet Quotations
162 Velvet quotes by 143 unique authors
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Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally,…
— Adyashanti
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What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The movie that made me want to make movies was "Blue Velvet."
— Steven Shainberg
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My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in…
— Evelyn Glennie
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I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.
— Martin Gore
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I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.
— Martin Gore
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I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my bathroom is totally…
— Avril Lavigne
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I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought…
— Courtney Love
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As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop…
— Moby
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Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.
— Rod Stewart
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
— Henry David Thoreau
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'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.
— Anurag Kashyap
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Known colloquially as 'winter,' 'golden needle,' and 'velvet foot' mushrooms, enoki mushrooms grow across much of the world, inhabiting dead conifer trees and stumps, and…
— Paul Stamets
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Overhead was a sky blacker than jewlers' velvet, and a billion stars screamed down...
— Stephen King
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He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of…
— Willa Cather
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You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda seemed to give…
— Gregory Maguire
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i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums…
— Don Marquis
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Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at…
— Libba Bray
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Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash,…
— Margaret Atwood
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For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman…
— Camille Paglia
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You're walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes…
— Haruki Murakami
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When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember…
— Herman Melville
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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
— Robin Hobb
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love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the…
— Terry Brooks
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143 authors contributed a total of 162 Velvet Quotes, led by these top contributors: