Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"Put your iron hand in a velvet glove."
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Velvet
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Lisa Gardner
Author
"If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet."
Martin Gore
Musician
"I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me."
Patrick Wilson
Actor
"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."
Stewart Lee
Comedian, Writer
"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."
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"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"
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"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."
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"Expect nothing and life will be velvet."
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"There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel."
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"For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe."
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"I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground."
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"When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas."
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"Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death."
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"I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes."
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"I bought a gun safe with velvet shelves and a built-in dehumidifier to house the hundreds of original [Barbara] Stanwyck letters I amassed that I first kept in the lettuce crisper of a refrigerator in my basement."
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"He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. “I thought I’d die for wanting you."
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"Overhead was a sky blacker than jewlers' velvet, and a billion stars screamed down."
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"Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground."
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"Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies."
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