Velvet Quotes

Velvet Quote of the day

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

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.

I'll never turn down a red velvet cupcake.

I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.

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

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.

I certainly know the difference between right and wrong.

Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.

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.

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

You should see what she’s wearing, Callie. It’s velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

But the warriors true, the brave of heart Who valiently upheld the right They are raised on high to the velvet sky Bringing light to the darkness of night

I did have Skidz overalls. Remember Skidz, those baggy plaid pants that look like pajamas? So I did rock overalls, but not in purple velvet. I couldn't find those.

If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound, Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground.

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage.

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

Let’s hope she’s like the others, who look only at the surface. Let’s hope she’d never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch.

From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren, What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes, Rhythm, perfume, light, o my only queen - The universe less hideous, each moment less strained?

Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.

She wore blue velvet Bluer than velvet was the night Softer than satin was the light From the stars She wore blue velvet Bluer than velvet were her eyes Warmer than May her tender sighs

Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface

All any girl needs, at any time in history, is simple velvet and basic diamonds.

Christ has no velvet crosses.

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

Black Velvet in that little boys smile, Black Velvet with that slow southern style. A new religion that'll bring you to your knees.

It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are no family photographs, No rings through the nose, no cries.

A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.

As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres pancreas juice on me help me I am disintigrating.

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

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

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

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.

There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.

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

As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.

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