Quotes of Velvet - somelinesforyou

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

- Henry David Thoreau

“ There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. ”

- Archibald Thompson

“ A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet. ”

- Lisa Gardiner

“ David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. ”

- Isabella Rossellini

“ I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Iron hand in a velvet glove. ”

- Charles V

“ 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. ”

- Raymond Chandler

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

- John Weitz

“ I'm attracted to classical things, not fads. I'm sure everybody has a'70s photograph of himself with a velvet lapel and a wide tie. But I like pieces that have age to them. ”

- Andy Garcia

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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… ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities — potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry — that was a sublime experience… ”

- Gregory Benford Timescape

“ 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
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