Top 29 Deep, Inspirational Quotes About "Silk" (2022)

"…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew…."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Ifs #Has Beens #Huge

"Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with common natures: Use 'em kindly, they rebel; But be rough as nutmeg-graters, And the rogues obey you well."

--- Aaron Hill

#Wells #Men #Use

"God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box."

--- Abraham Cahan

#Men #Connected #Form

"Watch it! It was robbed from other beings so it's HOT 'MERCHANDISE' and it's against the Law... the LAW OF DECENCY!!! Stay within this Law, steer clear of wool/pearl/silk/ fish bone/ fur/ivory/coral/ down/beeswax/honey/ cashmere/ lanolin/ feathers/ camel hair/flesh/milk/ eggs/ fish/ seafood/ other!!!"

--- Adela Popescu

#Decency #Wool #Cashmere

"No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe."

--- Adrienne Rich

#Grandmother #Resisting #Burned

"I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours but in anther tongue , I bring you black eyes and golden skin and curly hair , I bring you Islam and Luxor and Alexandria and Lutes and tambourines and date-palms and silk rugs and sunshine and incense and voluptuous ways"

--- Ahdaf Soueif

#Eye #Way #Tongue

"Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, out of Sundays dancing, children's words and love words, out of love for the little fists of children, I will build a world, my world with round shoulders."

--- Aime Cesaire

#Children #Rounds #World

"She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain."

--- Al Stewart

#Running #Dresses #Color

"On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain. Don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat."

--- Al Stewart

#Watercolors #Running #Years

"I have a love-hate relationship with white silk."

--- Alan Rickman

#White #Hate #Love Hate

"Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day, I received an SMS from a friend in New York - she was in a taxi on the way to court to face her arsehole ex-husband, and she said to me 'Alber, I am wearing a Lanvin dress, and I feel so protected.' That to me was the biggest compliment I ever received. To have a 500 gram piece of silk make her feel protected - that made me very happy indeed."

--- Alber Elbaz

#Women Power #Arseholes #Feels

"A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk."

--- Alec Guinness

#Voice #Silk #Silver

"Velius--so who is she? no wait, let me guess. skin of the finest porcelain. hair of the softest silk. a voice like birdsong, a smile like sunshine, and a mouth that would sate your brightest and darkest wishes Rumbold-- You've m-met her? Velius--oh yes, my friend. we all know her. we've all pursued her. some of us have even been lucky enough to have her. we've been drunk on her sin, become fools of her favor. she might have borne a different face each time, but her name was always the same. Trouble"

--- Alethea Kontis

#Mouths #Silk #Finest

"Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite."

--- Alexander Woollcott

#Government #Baby #Silk

"I don't wear leather, wool, or silk."

--- Alexandra Paul

#Silk #Leather #Wool

"If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry and anyone elses. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the Iliad, real animals, real people, real light attending everything."

--- Alice Oswald

#Ifs #People #Stills

"I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day!"

--- Alicia Sacramone

#Made #Paper #Dresses

"My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school."

--- Allegra Versace

#Mom #School #Silk

"If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk."

--- Amy Tan

#Comfortable #Ifs #Thinking

"What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again."

--- Anais Nin

#Want #May #Loses

"Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus."

--- Anais Nin

#Drug #Blood #Seems

"There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory."

--- Andrew Davidson

#Drifting #Target #Defeated

"I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction."

--- Andy Warhol

#Technique #Art #Silk

"I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of the man are revealed in this solution!' What does that mean?"

--- Andy Warhol

#Depth #Machines #He Man

"There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support."

--- AnnaLynne McCord

#Made #Strings #Organization

"I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose."

--- Anne Rice

#Heart #Rose #Gentleman

"The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers."

--- Anthony Burgess

#Silver #Gravity #Thunder

"It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure."

--- Anthony Trollope

#Hands #Results #Doe

"Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out."

--- Aphra Behn

#Fashion #Rich #Women

Deep, Inspirational Quotes about "Silk"