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  • 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. -- Courtney Love
  • Velvet Elvis never puts on weight. -- Al Yankovic
  • I'll never turn down a red velvet cupcake. -- Shay Mitchell
  • A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses. -- Enid Bagnold
  • Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band. -- Brian Eno
  • The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band -- Brian Eno
  • Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt. -- Isabella Rossellini
  • I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me. -- Martin Gore
  • Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. -- Robin Hobb
  • To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath. -- George Eliot
  • Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.' -- Ranbir Kapoor
  • You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake. -- Emma Stone
  • As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too. -- Ric Ocasek
  • Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET. -- David Lynch
  • 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 -- Washington Irving
  • 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
  • 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. -- Margaret Mitchell
  • When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own. -- Henry Rollins
  • I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, but I won't front like I'm super knowledgeable. I just never got around to it. -- Eric Andre
  • 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. -- Henry Rollins
  • The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.' -- Adam Michnik
  • Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a milky density unknown even by clouds.... my cheeks recalled the effects of its profound caress. -- Muriel Barbery
  • The only time I think I've ever gotten sick of playing Guns and Roses songs really was during - after having played them in Guns and Roses, and then in Snakepit, and then playing 'It's So Easy' and 'Brownstone' in Velvet Revolver. -- Slash
  • As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York. -- Moby
  • The movie that made me want to make movies was "Blue Velvet." -- Steven Shainberg
  • I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground. -- Martin Gore
  • Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis. -- Anurag Kashyap
  • 'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis. -- Anurag Kashyap
  • Vaclav Havel is the figure that represents the Velvet Revolution and the reunification of Europe. He will be sorely missed. -- Jerzy Buzek
  • Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun. -- Sarah Waters
  • Love this in the film, â??Velvet Goldmineâ? it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery! -- Anna Sui
  • No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song. -- Ezra Koenig
  • Black Velvet in that little boys smile, Black Velvet with that slow southern style. A new religion that'll bring you to your knees. -- Alannah Myles
  • 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. -- Kyle MacLachlan
  • 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 -- Kyle MacLachlan
  • I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City. -- Devendra Banhart
  • 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 -- Scott Weiland
  • 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. -- Janet Jackson
  • And now, finished with that puzzling mixture of insane intimacy and isolation which is notoriety, Velvet was able to get on quietly to her next adventures. -- Enid Bagnold
  • 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. -- Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Dune' was like a giant machine, and it was hard to keep track of all the pieces, but 'Blue Velvet' was a very sleek, compact little experience. -- Kyle MacLachlan
  • 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. -- Devendra Banhart
  • Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the Velvet Underground were doing. -- Charles Hazlewood
  • Hopper's best friend, Dean Stockwell, who starred with him in 'Blue Velvet,' let me watch golf with him while parsing out memories of when he and Hopper went off the deep end in Mexico. -- Tom Folsom
  • The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about socialism with a human face. -- Adam Michnik
  • 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. -- Stewart Lee
  • When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered cow hanging in a butcher shop as well as disturbingly appealing. -- Isabella Rossellini
  • I wish I could write 'Taxi Driver,' or 'Blue Velvet,' something brave, audacious, dramatic and dark. I don't know if I have the darkness in my own soul to be able to tap into it, unfortunately. -- Stephen Merchant
  • I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that. -- Bobby Vinton
  • 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. Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet -- Isabella Rossellini
  • When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music. -- Lykke Li
  • When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where Leonard Cohen wrote 'Chelsea Hotel', it was CBGBs and all the punk rock clubs. Artists and musicians lived there, and it was cheap and dangerous. -- Moby
  • Iron hand in a velvet glove. -- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
  • I still love red velvet cake. -- Molly Sims
  • I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes. -- Demetri Martin
  • My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday. -- Molly Sims
  • Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you. -- Rod Stewart
  • Known colloquially as 'winter,' 'golden needle,' and 'velvet foot' mushrooms, enoki mushrooms grow across much of the world, inhabiting dead conifer trees and stumps, and generally appearing throughout the late fall and winter months. -- Paul Stamets
  • We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can't. Well, there's also a velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings. -- Janet Jackson
  • I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my bathroom is totally Hello Kitty, I have a massive pink couch and a big antique gold cross. -- Avril Lavigne
  • I grew up in the age of polyester. When I got to touch real silk, cotton and velvet, the feel of nonsynthetic fabrics blew me away. I know it's important how clothing looks, but it's equally important how it feels on your skin. -- Colleen Atwood
  • My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers. -- Evelyn Glennie
  • Colorful garments - ball gowns, kimonos, evening pajamas - made from yards upon yards of iridescent silk or velvet. I own an unjustifiable number of such outfits and jump at the chance to wear them. Against the etiquette about which I am otherwise all too conscious, I frequently, and unrepentantly, overdress for the occasion. -- Julia Glass
  • David Lynch plucked me from obscurity. He cast me as the lead in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet,' and people have seen me as this boy-next-door-cooking-up-something-weird-in-the-basement ever since. I was 23 when I first met him, in his bungalow on the Universal lot, and could never have predicted we would have such an enduring relationship. -- Kyle MacLachlan
  • My beauty tricks revolve around eyes. For the early morning shoots, I pop eye pads in the freezer the night before, and when I take them out in the morning they are already cold and active and are great under my eyes. I keep my eye pads right next to my red velvet Ben & Jerry's in the freezer. -- Christine Teigen
  • I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword. -- Olivia De Havilland
  • Christ has no velvet crosses. -- Samuel Rutherford
  • Iron hand in a velvet glove. -- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
  • A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick. -- Frederick W. Smith
  • Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse. -- James Leonard Gordon
  • Expect nothing and life will be velvet. -- Lisa Gardner
  • Put your iron hand in a velvet glove. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • A naked blade sheathed in velvet, that was Raphael's voice. -- Nalini Singh
  • He's got a laugh like a machine gun firing through velvet. -- Libba Bray
  • Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness. -- Mark Mirabello
  • Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness -- Mark Mirabello
  • Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers. -- Chuck Eddy
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  • She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet. -- Diane Ackerman
  • Overhead was a sky blacker than jewlers' velvet, and a billion stars screamed down... -- Stephen King
  • All any girl needs, at any time in history, is simple velvet and basic diamonds. -- Eva Gabor
  • There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel. -- Eloisa James
  • My favorite color is purple. I have a huge velvet purple comforter on my bed. -- Meredith Brooks
  • You might be a redneck if your favorite Christmas present was a painting on black velvet. -- Jeff Foxworthy
  • Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death. -- Lana Del Rey
  • Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread. -- John Milton
  • In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine... -- Celia Rees
  • That makes me think of spandex-covered football players. It's not me. I'm in rhinestones and velvet, not spandex. -- Johnny Weir
  • The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout. -- Sara Sheridan
  • He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. "I thought I'd die for wanting you. -- Teresa Medeiros
  • ...early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills. -- Alice Hoffman
  • If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet. -- Brad Holland
  • When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel. -- John Weitz
  • I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches. -- Tom Sizemore
  • If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound, Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground. -- Elinor Wylie
  • I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet. -- Lisa Gardner
  • You should see what she's wearing, Callie. It's velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana. -- Sarah MacLean
  • He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand. -- Dan Fogelberg
  • As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet. -- Chris Alexander
  • Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love. -- William Maxwell
  • The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion. -- Alan Keyes
  • Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department. -- Alain de Botton
  • [Andrea] Leadsom has compassion ... a real steel and a real determination and that velvet glove of compassion that she really cares about people. -- Iain Duncan Smith
  • Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing. -- Fay Wray
  • For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe. -- Richard Bach
  • My grandfather was a very strong personality. He certainly ruled his household with an iron fist, even though it was often gloved in velvet! -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Don't be afraid to mix things up by pairing a military-style jacket with a velvet skirt, vintage with modern, off-the-rack with couture, formal with casual. -- Nina Garcia
  • 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. -- Robert Harling
  • 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. -- Oscar Wilde
  • 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
  • Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people. -- Diane Johnson
  • 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. -- Al Yankovic
  • 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. -- Max Lucado
  • 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. -- Patrick Wilson
  • I've been asking around to find out what girls are into," Eugene tells me, really pleased with himself. "So I'm gonna get a spray tan and make red-velvet cupcakes. -- Flynn Meaney
  • She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend. -- Terry Brooks
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