Top 343 Silk Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman
I love nice fabrics and texture like velvet and silk, and have a special Moroccan corner in my house to curl up and read in.
I always thought those old drab clothes from 'Silk Stockings' were the worst things I wore.
I have a lot of staples in my wardrobe. I love to pair a silk or lace blouse with a fitted black pant. This combination feels effortless yet put together.
It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me, and that's why I'm going to spend the rest of my life studying spider silk.
My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.
I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.
With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.
Personally, I wear a lot of my mother-in-law's chiffons and my mother's silk. But when I buy saris for myself, then they have to be understated.
I love intimate details like lingerie, something like a gorgeous silk stocking or exquisite slipper.
I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.
O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!
I wouldn't call it a retail store. It's a place where culture and commerce intersect. It's more like the Silk Road-a sense of exploration mixed with the exchange of things and ideas.
Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.
Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
Portofino in the '60s was magic. Women in bright silk, each with a gardenia in their hand. The bottle started then, in my mind.
We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?
Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.
The gospel may not make a sow's ear into a silk purse, but it will make everybody better if they live it. I've tried it. It stands the test.
[I made in army] all sorts of dumb things, but it did teach me a lot about the silk-screen process.
Creating a bridalwear collection was a natural progression from my evening wear collections, which are well known for their softly draped and diaphanous silk gowns.
Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down, and don't think readers will, either.
A water route to Chinese trade replacing the long, arduous Silk Road was a great dream of the Renaissance.
A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.
Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove.
As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.
Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.
For me, each day begins and ends with wanting to learn a little more about the secrets of spider silk.
Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts
I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.
I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.
Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.
There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support.
He was almost naked too, but I hadn't quite gotten to his boxers yet. (They were silk because, honestly what else would Adrian wear?)
Item song dancers like Silk Smitha and Jayamalini have become irrelevant. The heroines are doing those dances themselves.
I feel best in soft and natural materials such as cotton and silk. I wear collections from all designers. They all have outstanding cuts and extremely pleasant materials.
I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.
For Silk Route, my album 'Dooba Dooba' was a resounding success.
The straps that suspend a man's trousers from his shoulders - known in the U.S. as 'suspenders' and in Britain as 'braces' - are always correct with a summer suit made of seersucker, linen, or silk.
I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
Separation isnt time or distance
its the bridge between us
finer than silk thread sharper than swords
My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in my dress.
Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer.
Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.
We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.
I love working with silk because I loved it paired with jeans: it has a vintage feel; it's easy for dinners out.
I always have Giorgio Armani's Luminous Silk Foundation, Bobbi Brown's Jenna lipstick, and my Estee Lauder Double Wear Concealer.
'The Sound of Silk' will serve as a lens for larger questions about cultural identity in a global society and the potential for individuals to act as catalysts for change.
I have a lot of Breton striped top and silk shirts that always feel good. I also like things with a masculine edge and dislike anything too girly.
From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.
But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.
One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
Whatever happened to him?" Silk asked. "He went swimming in the Nedrane." "I didn't know that Thulls swam all that well." "They don't–particularly not with large rocks tied to their feet.
Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.
Well, hello there, Mother,” Sebastian said in a voice like silk. “Surprised to see me?
I think with 'Silk' there's something there for everyone: it's a legal drama, but it's human as well - you get to dip into the lives of the barristers and clerks.
Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or a silk brocade coast.
The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.
A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.
