Top 306 Velvet Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
All any girl needs, at any time in history, is simple velvet and basic diamonds.
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.
Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.
I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.
Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department.
I grew up in the '90s. I listened to a lot of The Clash, Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. I wasn't into Boyzone, or anything.
The Velvet Underground is probably the best band that's ever existed, assuredly the best American one.
Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.
Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.
No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.
Would I like to have a red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting? Yeah, I would.
The tabloids had a field day with 'Tipping The Velvet,' which was great for the viewing figures but not necessarily for the actors involved.
As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.
My six favorite textures for fall and winter are leather, fur, tweed, mohair, velvet and wool. I love that they are all as warm as they are fashionable and easy to incorporate into your wardrobe.
I would be happy to produce groups, like John Cale - he was in the Velvet Underground, and then he went on to produce these bands.
'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 think that expression is so great. So I'll look at someone like Prince, and one reason to lose weight is so I can rock that purple velvet outfit with the white frilly shirt.
Don't be afraid to mix things up by pairing a military-style jacket with a velvet skirt, vintage with modern, off-the-rack with couture, formal with casual.
If you asked me to sing a modern song, I wouldn't be able to - I can't easily slip into that groove. But if it were a song by Nico or The Velvet Underground, fine.
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.
My favorite color is purple. I have a huge velvet purple comforter on my bed.
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 the Velvet Underground were doing.
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.
The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.
As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet.
I read Slash's book because we were on the road together with Velvet Revolver when that came out.
I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.
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.
If you would keep your soul
From spotted sight or sound,
Live like the velvet mole;
Go burrow underground.
Red velvet cake is my absolute favorite. It has to be an actual slice of cake, not a cupcake; there's more surface area, so the icing ratio is higher.
I've come to think of Dunnett as the literary equivalent of the Velvet Underground; Not many people bought the books, but everyone who did wrote a novel.
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
God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach.
I don't think we are trying too hard. WE is inclusive from the beginning. That's the whole point. We've always been, 'everyone is welcome.' There is no velvet rope, no barrier to entry.
My grandfather was a very strong personality. He certainly ruled his household with an iron fist, even though it was often gloved in velvet!
Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface
'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.
Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.
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 what was fine left on its own.
Tom Ford gave me high heels for the baby. They're a little kitten heel with a velvet rope that you tie. It's like a collection piece. I have to put it on the bookshelf, framed.
Anurag was always too passionate about 'Raman Raghav 2.0' to care about anything else. There never was a 'Bombay Velvet' hangover.
Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.
Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun.
When I was 13, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground made more sense to me than anything else.
It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that
Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany's and somebody would buy it for a million dollars.
I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me.
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.
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 it,then," I said, and he laughed.
Films like 'Velvet Goldmine' are an accumulation of research and references. I create an almost random resource of connections and am constantly distilling that into narrative specifics.
I had three older sisters whose record collections I borrowed, so I was listening to The Velvet Underground as well as Bach and brass band music.
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.
And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.
There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.
The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band
I have a Saint Laurent burgundy velvet jacket that has gold stars embroidered all over it and it's my magic piece of clothing that makes me feel like a wizard or something.
My favorite model of success is when people say, 'Nobody bought that first Velvet Underground album, but everyone who did started a band.'
I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me