Fur Quotes - Page 12

• Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.

  John Gay

  Fishing, Rivers, Lakes

  John Gay (1770). “The works of Mr. John Gay: In four volumes. To which is added an account of the life and writings of the author ...”, p.27

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• Selfridges’ Christmas hot list includes faux fur animal hats by Merrimaking, currently enjoying a cult status in Japan and amongst festival goers.

  Geraldine James

  Animal, Japan, Hot

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• An increase of two or three degrees wouldn't be so bad for a northern country like Russia. We could spend less on fur coats, and the grain harvest would go up.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Russia, Two

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• Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance. All I have to do to make me feel like a new and younger man is to order three new suits of clothes. My fur-lined overcoat gave me such a glow of health that very shortly after acquiring it I was able to enjoy the hazards of a Gargantuan studio cocktail party without a single twinge of pain.

  Adolphe Menjou

  Pain, Party, Men

  Adolphe Menjou (1950). “It took nine tailors”

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• Quite Franc-ly, I think I am an asset to this world we live in. I know that if I didn’t exist, there would be some truly upset people just waiting for me. A life without Franco is like a kitten without fur. That’s what my reflection told me.

  James Franco

  Reflection, Thinking, People

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• I lay naked in furs a lot. I think I'm naked more than I talk.

  Jason Momoa

  Thinking, Naked, Lays

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• We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Thinking, Needs

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• But if an actress asks me my opinion, I would tell her there are a million different designers who make faux fur. If you like that look, wear faux fur. If you're doing it on the red carpet, you're doing it for how it looks. Faux fur and real fur look the same on camera.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Real, Looks, Red

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  People, Want, Break

  Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (2015). “Beasts and Super-Beasts”, p.157, Read Books Ltd

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• For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Horse, Long Ago, Feet

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• Now let you and me buy wine today! Why say we have not the price? My horse spotted with five flowers, My fur-coat worth a thousand pieces of gold, These I will take out, and call my boy To barter them for sweet wine. And with you twain, let me forget The sorrow of ten thousand ages!

  Li Bai

  Sweet, Horse, Flower

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• Cats don't bark and act brave when they see something small in fur or feathers, they kill it. Dogs tend to bravado. They're braggarts. In the great evolutionary drama the dog is Sergeant Bilko, the cat is Rambo.

  James P. Gorman

  Dog, Drama, Cat

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• There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man's canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader's boat.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, White Man, Names

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods (Annotated Edition)”, p.7, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Micromessaging -- communicating with other human beings through visual, audible, sublingual means, no doubt predates our ability to speak. We actually read micromessages quite naturally without thinking about them. You might say human beings read each other's micromessages subconsciously, in the same way that one dog understands another dog is unfriendly simply because the dog's fur is standing on end. The dogs read each other perfectly. It's not all that different for people.

  Stephen Young

  Dog, Mean, Thinking

  Stephen Young (2006). “Micromessaging”, p.7, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the Esquimauxsledges are drawn by dogs, and in the twilight of the northern night the hunter does not give over to follow the seal and walrus on the ice. They are of sick and diseased imaginations who would toll the world's knell so soon. Cannot these sedentary sects do better than prepare the shrouds and write the epitaphs of those other busy living men? The practical faith of all men belies the preacher's consolation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Twilight, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, ed. by B. Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861”

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• A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

  Tommy Lee

  Artist, Animal, Thinking

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• Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my hand, raise it to the light, rub my hand across it, disjoin it, put it back together again with a comma added, raising the pitch in the front part; when I rub the grain of it, comb the fur of it, re-assemble the bones of it, I am making something that carries with it the sound of a voice, the firmness of a hand. Maybe little more.

  Donald Hall

  Writing, Light, Hands

  Donald Hall (2004). “Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected”, p.50, University of Michigan Press

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• Sloths actually are like furry living ecosystems all by themselves! Algae grows on their fur and they are also home to "sloth moths" who call them home and drink their tears.

  Ann Burton

  Home, Ecosystems, Sloth

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I wish I could do it again, only I wish I could take all of the animals out of the environmental fur farm ... I have absolutely no regrets, and I hope the same thing continues to happen at MSU and every other college campus that does animal research.

  Rod Coronado

  Regret, Animal, College

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• PETA is such an important cause to me. The mistreatment of animals is something that just really gets me. I feel it's really the most important part of what I do. Don't Eat Meat! Don't Wear Fur! I mean, there are so many other options these days.

  Pamela Anderson

  Mean, Animal, Important

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• I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats. And if we didn't wear fur coats, those little animals would never have been born!

  Barbi Benton

  Believe, Animal, Coats

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. They must be rendered stronger, or acquire more effective teeth or claws, in order to defend themselves from new enemies; or they must be reduced in size so as to escape detection and danger. When they migrate into a colder climate they must become clothed with thicker fur, or have their constitutions altered. If they fail to be thus modified, they will cease to exist.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Hands, Order

  Charles Darwin (1952). “The origin of species by means of natural selection: The descent of man and selection in relation to sex”

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• Fur pillows are actually hard to sleep on.

  Kanye West

  Sleep, Pillow, Hard

  "Barney Frank: The Comedian's Politician". "Ask Me Another" with Ophira Eisenberg, www.npr.org. May 10, 2013.

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• I don't buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars.

  Peta Wilson

  Car, Coats, Jewelry

  "Peta Wilson's Verbal Seduction" by Tyler Cabot, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• The polishedness and the sophistication were what I was interested in. I mean, give me a polka dot, a floral print, a pleated dress, a big fur coat, that was always my language, and it wasn't very "in" when I was starting out, so I had a difficult time in the beginning.

  Jason Wu

  Mean, Giving, Dresses

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 17, 2013.

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