#silk

So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#did #gold #got #great #hats

I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll. ↗

— David Walliams

#bought #call #came #dad #doll

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

— Alec Guinness

#muffled #silk #silver #superb #tenor

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. ↗

— Joseph Hall

#moderation #pearl #running #silken #string

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#best #best way #ear #make #money

Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor ... great scarlet arcs of silk ... saffron ... green ... crimson ... and the blaze of Venus to remind one of the absolute and the infinite ... and along the lower rim of beauty lay the hard harsh line of the hills ... ↗

— John Coldstream

#description #imagery #natural-world #silk #sunset

Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter - you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#bit #costume #could #floating #hardly

I don't like silk underwear. They don't do the job, you know? ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#job #know #like #silk #underwear

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#first #fluttering #holier #life #love

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

— Alexandra Paul

#leather #silk #wear #wool