Velvet Quotes

Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.

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

I walked across the polished marble floor and sat on a red velvet lounging couch. I idly wondered how exactly one was supposed to lounge. I couldn't remember ever doing it myself. After a moment's consideration, I decided lounging was probably similar to relaxing, but with more money in your pocket.

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.

Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ... (But) the best fantasies pull aside the velvet curtain of mere appearance. ... In most instances, fantasy ultimately returns us to our own now re-enchanted world, reminding us that it is neither prosaic nor meaningless, and that how we live and what we do truly matters.

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

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.

Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

I certainly know the difference between right and wrong.

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.

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

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.

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.

Christ has no velvet crosses.

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

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.

Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.

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

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.

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.