Fur Quotes - Page 2

• I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Cutting, Animal, Thinking

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• The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

  Joseph Epstein

  Running, True Joy, Texas

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• I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.

  Ann Patchett

  Beautiful, Book, Sleep

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• Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Home, Science, Animal

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.41, VM eBooks

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• There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.

  J. Carter Brown

  Cat, Way, Wrong Way

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• I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.

  Diana Ross

  Real, Animal, Deep Thought

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

  Paul Harvey

  Animal, Equality, Government

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• It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Ideas, Fake

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• I won't wear fur-never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.

  Bonnie Hunt

  Animal, Legs, Lovers

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

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• Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.

  Catherine Malandrino

  Default, Indulgence, Humans

  "Catherine Malandrino Loves Fur, Old Buildings, Cigarettes". Interview with Corbin Chamberlin, www.thecut.com. February 13, 2011.

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• An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits... they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our clothing, our furs ... He who in studying all the different species of insects that are injurious to us, would seek means of preventing them from harming us, would seek to cause them to perish, proposes for his goal important tasks indeed.

  Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur

  Mean, Science, Animal

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• He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Cat, Eye, Cutting

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• Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."

  Eric Sevareid

  Bravery, Principles, Next

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• Depending on the season, between 20 and 30 percent of my collections contain some sort of eco or sustainable element, whether it's a beautiful organic fabric or a natural dye. And obviously I don't use animal skins or fur of any kind.

  Stella McCartney

  Beautiful, Animal, Skins

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• The discussion of fur is childish.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, Love And Hate, Discussion

  "Fashion Designer Karl Lagerfeld Defends Fur: Kill 'Beasts' Before They Kill Us". www.foxnews.com. January 3, 2009.

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• If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

  Francis of Assisi

  Religious, Peace, Men

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• My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Running, Mean, Cat

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• Even if you buy a fur glove with the little trim, and you think 'Oh, my God, it's just a little trim,' that animal got clubbed.

  Eva Mendes

  Animal, Thinking, Gloves

  "Actress Eva Mendes keeps clothes on in latest anti-fur campaign" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. November 27, 2009.

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• I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.

  Kiki Smith

  Animal, Hair, Drawing

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• Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

  Jean Paul

  Heart, Rapper, Animal

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• I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.

  Sadie Frost

  Animal, Smell, Worn

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

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• The cat is a dilettante in fur.

  Theophile Gautier

  Cat, Dilettantes

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

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• And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.

  Bryan Ferry

  Coats, Stuff, Like Her

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• Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Time Enough for Love". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1973.

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• People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

  Alexei Sayle

  Motorcycle Gangs, People, Riding

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