Velvety Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.
— Helen Keller
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We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches…
— Mark Twain
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He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night.…
— Robin Williams
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One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there was only "some…
— Winston Churchill
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Usually when I ask people to reach into my velvety pouch it means something different.
— Rebel Wilson
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Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down…
— Raymond Chandler
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Here’s what I learned: First thing in the morning, before I have drowned myself in coffee, while I still have that sleepy brain I used…
— Merrill Markoe
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There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like…
— Andrei Codrescu
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But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his…
— Anton Chekhov
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Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
— Walter Isaacson
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The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing,…
— Donna Tartt
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He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing,…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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It's a soft-sounding word, 'never,' but its velvety timbre can't hide its sharp edges...Never pressed down on him. It grabbed him by the neck and…
— Kathi Appelt
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His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.
— Karen Marie Moning
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Dorina?" Louis Cesare's voice was loud in my ear. The one I had squeezed against the phone, which was squeezed against my sore shoulder, becuase…
— Karen Chance
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My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
Who Wrote These Velvety Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 Velvety Quotes as follows: