Top 343 Silk Quotes & Sayings

We never had any silk sheets in our family...

No revolution can be made with silk gloves.

It's important for me to have different tiers of value for the art. Some of the silk-screens are really affordable, but I do have some high-end silk-screens that are several color layers and a little more expensive, and then I have the paintings that can get way up there.

Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")

The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man. Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls.

Like the ancient Silk Road itself, 'The Sound of Silk' will make the foreign familiar while challenging long-held notions of identity and our place in the world.

I love sensual materials like silk or cashmere.

The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.

I take hair growth, natural vitamins and sleep on silk pillow cases.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

Many times people tried to convince me about Ahimsa silk, but when I followed the chain of production it always ended with genetically modified silk moths that could not fly. There was nothing Ahimsa about it.

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.

Ereena is a commendable mission for both women empowerment and environmentally sustainable Ahimsa silk.

…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 she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….

My whole house has a lot of silk flowers - it feels like a garden.

By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

Misty Sendaria," Silk said ironically. "Sometimes I'm amazed that the entire kingdom doesn't rust shut.

When I was approached for the Kannada version of the film, the makers said it would be their version of 'The Dirty Picture,' based on the life of Silk Smitha. So, I asked them for the exact story. But, I was shocked after hearing the complete story. It was neither like the Bollywood version, nor about the life of Silk Smitha.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Fabrics such as raw silk, velvet, shimmer, satin and georgette work well for the wedding season.

I started to do silk-screen in the early days of my painting training, due to a woman who taught art history at the institute, Kathleen Blackshear. She was interested in silk screen and taught a class that I took.

I am almost always, when I'm at home in the evening after work, in a silk bathrobe I got from India. Like, I never take off this bathrobe. I have a series of Indian silk bathrobes that I love, and that's what I rock all the time.

A thong. God bless the thong. He hooked his fingers in the silk sides and tugged, rolling the silk down her legs until it hit the floor, his favorite place for panties.

I was 16 at the time, and I came backstage and started hanging out with them. I said, "Well, maybe you can 'vanish' the silk this way." The opening was a black stage while the "Magic to Do" song started playing. All you saw were hands, lit by Jules Fisher, and then Ben Vereen would appear beyond the hands, and at the end of the scene he would vanish a silk. The spotlight would hit a red spot on the floor where you'd see the silk on the floor. He'd pull the silk out of the floor and it became the entire set coming out of the floor.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.

For me, growing up in Detroit, scarves meant cold weather. But I remember working in a store, and we had some silk scarves - like, wide scarves with fringe - and because I had seen the English rockers wearing skinny silk scarves, I took the scarves, cut and sewed them, and made them long - almost like a tie.

A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.

The Silk Worm I stood before a silk worm one day. And that night my heart said to me, "I can do things like that, I can spin skies, I can be woven into love that can bring warmth to people; I can be soft against a crying face, I can be wings that lift, and I can travel on my thousand feet throughout the earth, my sacs filled with the sacred." And I replied to my heart, "Dear, can you really do all those things?" And it just nodded "Yes" in silence. So we began and will never cease.

I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.

Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.

Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.

I don't like silk underwear. They don't do the job, you know?

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school.

It's hard to get up at 6am when you're wearing silk pyjamas.

What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories.

I still like to play songs from my Silk Route days at concerts.

I particularly love the silk in Jakarta, the shoes in Tokyo and the amazing cloth from Thailand and Malaysia.

I'm not a fashion person, but I would describe my style as very neutral. I love a good silk slip.

My must-have hair products are Phyto silk spray and Kusco-Murphy setting lotion.

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

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.

That [silk-screen process experience] carried over when I returned from the Army and took more graphic classes at the Institute. And Alix [MacKenzie] and I actually began to produce a line of textiles, which had silk-screen patterns on them.

Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.

It's more difficult getting up early in the morning when you're wearing silk pajamas.

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.

Twisting and wiring and stringing starching and curling, delicately painting spots and shadings on scraps of silk until what had been nothing more than a pile of brightly colored fragments had been transformed into the silk irises, forget-me-not, violets and roses that would adorn the hats of women and girls more fortunate than themselves.

You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.

I never imagined I would wear a silk sari as I practice Ahimsa.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 am when you've been sleeping in silk pajamas

Exaggerating?" Silk sounded shocked. "You don't mean to say that horses can actually lie, do you? Hettar shrugged. "Of course. They lie all the time. They're very good at it." For a moment Silk looked outraged at the thought, and then he suddenly laughed. "Somehow that restores my faith in the order of the universe," he declared. Wolf looked pained. "Silk," he said pointedly, "you're a very evil man. Did you know that?" "One does one's best," Silk replied mockingly.

Before I found Minerva, I'd passed nights with more than my share of women." Thorne groaned. Don't. Just don't. "I've passed time with duchesses and farm girls, and it doesn't matter whether their skirts are silk or homespun. Once you get them bare--" Thorne drew up short. "If you start in on rivers of silk and alabaster orbs, I will have to hit you.

Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.

Can I have a silk nightgown with rosebuds on it?

Once a guy starts wearing silk pajamas it's hard to get up early.