Silk Stockings Quotes

#1. No one knew better than Stepan Arkadyevitch how to hit on the exact line between freedom, simplicity, and official stiffness necessary for the agreeable conduct of business.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Red-heeled shoes and silk stockings clocked in black. Gray satin breeches with silver knee buckles. Snowy linen, with Brussels lace six inches deep at cuff and jabot. The coat, a masterpiece in heavy gray with blue satin cuffs and crested silver buttons, hung behind the door, awaiting its turn.

Diana Gabaldon

#3. It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

A.W. Tozer

#4. I dropped my head into my arms. I could hear the sea vibrating, the tiny hiss of displaced sand and the click of stones. If I lay still and quiet enough, I thought, I could melt into this elemental world of sun, water and wide, open horizon.

Elizabeth Buchan

#5. This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.

John Scalzi

#7. The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

Luis Bunuel

#9. Ultimately, no person, or no circumstance has control of you - that control belongs to you and you only. So grasp God's hand and return to the freedom that he died to give you.

Henry Cloud

#10. I fell in love with her partly because I understood what she was doing with her work. I fell because she understood what she was doing with it. I also fell in love because she was wearing a sexy black dress and silk stockings, the kind that hook with garters.

Stephen King

#11. I stood in front of him in nothing but my shoes and gartered rose-silk stockings.

Diana Gabaldon

#12. So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets
dainty bricks of dream wrapped in the silk stockings of oblivion.

Janet Frame

#13. Silk stockings. With garters. Well, they were out. There were a lot of things he'd do for Sybil, but if garters figured anywhere in the relationship they weren't going to be on him.

Terry Pratchett

#14. I traveled with my mother, Lela, and there was never enough money. I always had to roll down my silk stockings and carry a doll when we bought train tickets so I could go half-fare. If we had $3, we always figured how to tip for the trunks and still eat.

Ginger Rogers