“ 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- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel. ”
- John Weitz- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ 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- Copy
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