Top 993 Velvet Underground Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I come from the underground, from the ground.

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.

Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs! Knocker and gongs! Pound, pound, far underground! Ho, ho! my lad! Swish, smack! Whip crack! Batter and beat! Yammer and bleat! Work, work! Nor dare to shirk, While Goblins quaff, and Goblins laugh, Round and round far underground Below, my lad!

My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.

Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine” it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!

Underground, the stars are legend.

Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.

Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of us quite alone, and that's what I try to paint.

I was in the underground until I left Germany.

Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.

I have four or five custom suits, including one that's velvet, and a gray one I wear onstage. It's wool.

Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.

But the warriors true, the brave of heart Who valiently upheld the right They are raised on high to the velvet sky Bringing light to the darkness of night

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

The New York Times credited me with the rediscovery and revival of red velvet cake. I consider this as one of my great life achievements.

I have a huge underground following on the web.

What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness

We were the underground reporters.

I'm a fan of Lucha Underground and hope they are successful.

If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

I wanted to quit acting and as soon as I decided that, the call for 'Velvet Buzzsaw' came through.

I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.

The reason I went ahead with making the music for 'Bombay Velvet' was because I loved the script.

There will always be an underground.

Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.

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

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.

Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.

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.

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

I'm very underground.

Everything's so commercialised it shuts down the underground.

As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet.

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are no family photographs, No rings through the nose, no cries.

The tabloids had a field day with 'Tipping The Velvet,' which was great for the viewing figures but not necessarily for the actors involved.

Oh, I'm a huge fan of 'Lucha Underground.'

To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.

Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.

He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. “I thought I’d die for wanting you.

Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet.

Overhead was a sky blacker than jewlers' velvet, and a billion stars screamed down.

Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.

He strode to the wall and tore aside one of the velvet hangings. “You want to tell me what this is?” he demanded. “It’s a door, Jace,” said Clary.

'Dune' was like a giant machine, and it was hard to keep track of all the pieces, but 'Blue Velvet' was a very sleek, compact little experience.

I read Slash's book because we were on the road together with Velvet Revolver when that came out.

My grandfather was a very strong personality. He certainly ruled his household with an iron fist, even though it was often gloved in velvet!

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

There was a time when people would go search out underground records. Now, underground means free, and people don't really care for it. So now artists tend to go more pop and look for the radio. You know, the radio never wanted you to speak about anything, so the music is kinda influenced by the hands of the radio which wants to homogenize it and dilute it and sanitize it. And for the most part, nobody's takin' the time to seek out the cats that are still tryin' to talk, so they have a difficult time being heard, like Chuck D said.

Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun.

I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.

You might be a redneck if your favorite Christmas present was a painting on black velvet.

Vaclav Havel is the figure that represents the Velvet Revolution and the reunification of Europe. He will be sorely missed.

It's a dangerous thing to build pipelines underground.

Pairing a sequin mini skirt with a velvet long sleeved bodysuit can never go wrong!

Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department.