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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

New York, Cake, Achievement

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I wore my first pair of Louboutins during this press tour. It was absolutely amazing, they weren't heels, they were little shoes, but they were velvet and they were blue.

Chloe Grace Moretz

Blue, Shoes, Pairs

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Sometimes I come here just to be a lost mariner
but I am never lost:
there are the snowflakes frozen to the porthole of a jewelry store,
here is the treasure chest open to a single pearl
laid on a velvet slab,
there is the plashing of faces in the aisles
and the row of lockers stuffed with the coats and hats of the drowned
and it is night, and the moon rows over
the gentle waters of the parking lot.

Nancy Eimers

Moon, Night, Water

Nancy Eimers (2006). “A Grammar to Waking: Poems”, Carnegie-Mellon University Press

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When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.

Evan Dando

Years, Sick, Fans

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

Johnny Weir

Football, Player, Thinking

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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

Sex, Clothes, Blue

Isabella Rossellini (1997). “Some of Me”, Random House Incorporated

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What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited on the other side of the horizon, where the stars burned undimmed in the velvet sky above his head and the virgin ground lay untrodden beneath his feet?

Rick Yancey

Dream, Stars, Adventure

Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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

Anna Sui

Discovery, Thrill, Excitement

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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

Travel, Thinking, Islands

Diane Johnson (1993). “Natural opium: some travelers' tales”, Alfred A. Knopf

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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

Love You, Heart, Government

Alan Keyes' Speech at Renew America rally at the McKay Events Center in Orem, Utah, www.keyesarchives.com. March 8, 2000.

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For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late.

David F. Houston

Crops, States, Beans

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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.

Elizabeth Smart

Wings, Bird, Relief

Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage

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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

Rocks, Tree, Surfing

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Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.

James Leonard Gordon

Kindness, Social, Intercourse

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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

Beauty, Ocean, Heart

Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.459

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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

Brian Jacques

Heart, Warrior, Night

Brian Jacques (2007). “High Rhulain”, p.263, Penguin

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On the plus side, if he ever had to fight through a roomful of adolescent girls, he only needed to blink (his velvet brown eyes framed in embarassingly long lashes) a few times, and they would all faint.

Ilona Andrews

Girl, Eye, Fighting

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I sing of a woman with ink on her hands and pictures hidden beneath her hair. I sing of a dog with skin like velvet pushed the wrong way.I sing of the shape a fallen body makes in the dirt beneath a tree, and I sing of an ordinary man who is wanted to know things no human being could tell him.This is the true beginning.

Carolyn Parkhurst

Dog, Men, Hair

Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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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

Yellow, Looks, Bananas

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I said,'Instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women singers are going in [revealing], I'll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet...I will have mystique.

Stevie Nicks

Inspiring, Sexy, Women

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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

Powerful, Real, Blood

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Dear Alec and Magnus, I known we're not really close, but Isabelle just came by to drop off a pleated orange velvet tux that she claims I will be wearing to your wedding. Is this true, and if so, why orange? -Simon

Cassandra Clare

Orange, Alec And Magnus, Claims

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

Lana Del Rey

Syrup, Hitting, Bleeding

Song: Velvet Crowbar

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I love leather and I love lace, but not necessarily together. I'm probably happiest in a long black velvet dress, black suede boots, and some kind of really beautiful wrap than I am in anything else. I don't even own a pair of jeans.

Stevie Nicks

Beautiful, Jeans, Long

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Once, at a seminar, I heard a Westernized lama say that a meditator's state of mind should be like that of a hotel doorman. A doorman lets the guests in, but he doesn't follow them up to their rooms. He lets them out, but he doesn't walk into the street with them to their next appointment. He greets them all, then lets them go on about their business. Meditation is, in its initial stages, simply accustoming oneself to letting thoughts come and go without grasping at their sleeves or putting up a velvet rope to keep them out.

Marc Ian Barasch

Letting Go, Meditation, Mind

Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.131, ReadHowYouWant.com

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