Velvet Quotes

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

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

I still love red velvet cake.

For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.

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

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.

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

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.

Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.

From the distance of the moon, Earth was four times the size of a full moon seen from Earth. It was a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky.

I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.

When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.

love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins

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

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

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.

He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand.

Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.

I like to go to the races at Hollywood Park, but I don't usually win with the horses, so afterward I go to Auntie Em's and drown my sorrows in a red velvet cupcake. It never fails me.

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

The best New York in the world is driving down the [Pacific Coast Highway] listening to the Velvet Underground. That's the best time I've ever been to New York.

No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.

Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.

My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.

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

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

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.

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

He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.

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.

Ladies who were no better than they should be, whose dresses were too tight, too bright and too all the things Magnus liked most, lounged on velvet-covered benches along the walls.

In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine.

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

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

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.

Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.

[Andrea] Leadsom has compassion ... a real steel and a real determination and that velvet glove of compassion that she really cares about people.

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

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

That makes me think of spandex-covered football players. It's not me. I'm in rhinestones and velvet, not spandex.

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

Cat got your tongue? And what a lovely tongue it is. I know. It licked every inch of me. Repeatedly. For months," He purred but with steel in the velvet

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

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.

My favorite color is purple. I have a huge velvet purple comforter on my bed.

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

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

Tom Ford just started at Gucci and was getting great notoriety - like Madonna wearing that head-to-toe velvet suit at the MTV awards. I remember it like it was yesterday.