Best Velvet Lines
162 Velvet quotes by 143 unique authors
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She said, “I’m going to have you fired.” I had two people say that to me today, “I’m going to have you fired.” Go ahead,…
— David Sedaris
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You’re like Marilyn Monroe,’ Ken tells me, which I take as a compliment and say a nervous “Thank You”. Interrupting, he adds, ‘You’re all velvet…
— Emma Forrest
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I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a…
— Laurie R. King
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Cat got your tongue? And what a lovely tongue it is. I know. It licked every inch of me. Repeatedly. For months," He purred but…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Wine's terrible for babies." Dorian swept into the sitting room to join me, elegantly arranging himself on a love seat that displayed his purple velvet…
— Richelle Mead
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Dear Alec and Magnus, I known we're not really close, but Isabelle just came by to drop off a pleated orange velvet tux that she…
— Cassandra Clare
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There is no end of things in the heart. ...she understood it to mean that if you took something to heart, really brought it inside…
— Michael Connelly
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Let’s hope she’s like the others, who look only at the surface. Let’s hope she’d never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass…
— Franny Billingsley
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Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand? Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look…
— Vera Nazarian
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Sam loved to listen to music and make his own songs, to wear soft velvets, to play in the castle kitchen beside the cooks, drinking…
— George R. R. Martin
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Propping the mirror against the wall near the door, he waved a hand at it and clipped, "Drustan: Cian MacKeltar. Cian: Drustan MacKeltar." "Dageus," Drustan's…
— Karen Marie Moning
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a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto…
— E E Cummings
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Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. No flower, feather or fabric, can…
— Gregory David Roberts
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Velvet looks horrified. “If you are fool enough to address King R’jan, you will do it thus and in no other manner! ‘My King, Liege,…
— Karen Marie Moning
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With a sigh she reached into her pocket and drew out a small velvet bag, which upended on the table. Two gold rings fell out,…
— Cassandra Clare
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Well,I hope you like the ring." He held it out to me, he velvet lid still closed. "My mom hates it." "I'm sure I'll love…
— Amanda Hocking
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Soft you day, be velvet soft, My true love approaches, Look you bright, you dusty sun, Array your golden coaches. Soft you wind, be soft…
— Maya Angelou
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Ladies who were no better than they should be, whose dresses were too tight, too bright and too all the things Magnus liked most, lounged…
— Cassandra Clare
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Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a…
— Margery Williams
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You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.
— Emma Stone
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I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so…
— Olivia De Havilland
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When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes…
— Henry Rollins
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Colorful garments - ball gowns, kimonos, evening pajamas - made from yards upon yards of iridescent silk or velvet. I own an unjustifiable number of…
— Julia Glass
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I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave scene. All those bands looked back…
— Dean Wareham
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Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what…
— Charles Hazlewood
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