Silk Quotes

Silk Quote of the day

It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 am when you've been sleeping in silk pajamas

A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman

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.

Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

Once a guy starts wearing silk pajamas it's hard to get up early.

I'm not averse to being tied up in silk scarves. I like a man to take charge. There's something very sexy about being submissive.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.

We never had any silk sheets in our family...

Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.

It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.

It's hard to get up at 6am when you're wearing silk pyjamas.

A thong. God bless the thong. He hooked his fingers in the silk sides and tugged, rolling the silk down her legs until it hit the floor, his favorite place for panties.

I love intimate details like lingerie, something like a gorgeous silk stocking or exquisite slipper.

Separation isnt time or distance its the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords

Alongside getting faith out of a heart that is utterly hostile and unbelieving, making a silk purse out of a sow's ear or getting blood from a turnip is child's play.

Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.

From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.

I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.

We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti

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.

Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

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.

Portofino in the '60s was magic. Women in bright silk, each with a gardenia in their hand. The bottle started then, in my mind.

No revolution can be made with silk gloves.

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

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.

It's more difficult getting up early in the morning when you're wearing silk pajamas.

He wound the scarf around his fingers until her hand was hanging in the space between them. Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm. And Eleanor disintegrated.

So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it.

Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.

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.

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.

Can I have a silk nightgown with rosebuds on it?

I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky.

I don't like silk underwear. They don't do the job, you know?

O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!