26 Quotes about Velvet @Quotio

I'd rather sit alone on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau

A lot of things we're seeing right now are very familiar pieces, but they're done in a new fabric or color. It's about juxtaposition - denim with velvet. That makes it easy to get a lot of use out of it.
Gregg Andrews

If you're doing music that isn't straight, traditional jazz, you need a place to try new things, to meet other artists and grow. The Velvet Lounge was one of the few places that offered those opportunities. ... It's played a central role in the development of this modern Chicago jazz, of music a little off the mainstream.
Tatsu Aoki

We have new shapes in woven satin of course, combinations of velvet and satin that are coordinated with shoes. We have really a variety of evening handbags that are very exciting.
Laura Moltedo

Iron hand in a velvet glove.
Charles Victor Cherbuliez

My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet they are dry. They have weight, but they are light. Airy, yet substantial. Earth, air, fire, water; velvet and elastic! Meat, wheat and magic! They are our family glory!
Robert Tristram Coffin

RESPLENDENT, adj. Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, or affirming his consequence in the Scheme of Things as an elemental unit of a parade. The Knights of Dominion were so resplendent in their velvet- and-gold that their masters would hardly have known them. 'Chronicles of the Classes'.
Ambrose Bierce

We always have our classic yellow and our double chocolate and recently we decided to keep red velvet forever because red velvet, everybody enjoys red velvet.
Noah Antieau

The scarves are a dream. We have very long printed double-velvet scarves to revive any outfit. (And) we go from that to a simple bandanna that you can tie to your neck.
Laura Moltedo

[To render the separates dressier, Moss says designers have combined festive colors -- silver, gold, red and black -- with luxurious-looking fabrics.] There are lots of shiny synthetic materials, ... as well as velvet, satin and taffeta.
Carolyn Moss

Dark alley, near midnight, silent door, loud knock, moment of silence, footsteps groping down stairs, rattle of key in lock, door opened -- and there lamp held high above his head, stands your dark Celtic velvet inspired mystic eloquent refined W.B.Y. himself, the William Blake of this smaller generation.
William Bliss Carman

Here, seated on red velvet banquettes at marble-topped tables, one can't help wonder what sights these smoky, gilded mirrors have reflected for more than 250 years.
Terry Weeks

She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesnt she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.
Terry Brooks

There are a lot of men's holiday clothes in festive colors made of microfibers, ... with a soft hand, such as suede, velvet and corduroy. You also see shirts with decoration and shine.
Carolyn Moss

Tall, bald, and pouch-eyed, with a velvet voice, a droll wit and the face of a cunning bloodhound a performer who made audiences twitter and roar with subtle ease.
Robert D. Mcfadden

I visited Lou Reed in New York a few times before I went away. I visited them a few times when I was still living at home- took the train down. I hung out with the Velvet Underground a bit, slept on their manager's couch but it was Steve Selznick not Danny Fields.
Jonathan Richman

David has been a fan of Velvet Underground for a long time. When the opportunity to make a film about Nico came along he jumped at it.
John Byrne

I loved the fall collection because it's really luxury for everyday. There are so many different ways of pairing things. You wear rich opulent jackets with a pair of jeans and a T-shirt. It's very versatile if you break the pieces down. You wear an embroidered velvet skirt with a simple sweater and flat boots and you can go walk to dog.
Cynthia Steffe

When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.
Herman Melville

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

In Russia there is great interethnic hatred, class hatred - I mean hatred for wealthy people - that is stirred up by official propaganda. That is why there can be no 'velvet' solution, as there was, for example, in Georgia or Ukraine.
Boris Nemtsov

If I have a signature, it's the skull and crossbones. I have ties, cuff links, suspenders, and even a pair of velvet tuxedo slippers with the skull and crossbones on them. I think it's the buccaneer in me.
Art Cooper

When I was a kid I listened to a lot of punk music, but then along came Orange Juice, ... They really broadened my musical perspective. They were self-deprecating and had a great sense of humor. And they sounded like Velvet Underground meeting Al Green. They called themselves 'the sound of young Scotland,' a play on Motown's 'Sound of Young America.'
Norman Blake

We're having a huge red-velvet curtain lining hung in front of the DJ booth. They're going to be closed until I come on. When the curtains open, there's going to be fire and performers in a black room.
Dj Steve Lawler

There's always a theme for it, and in the past we've dressed formal, in pajamas, wearing hats. I'm running out of suggestions. But I am in search of velvet ropes.
Michele Cochran

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.
Edward Hoagland

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