Fur Quotes - Page 8

• There is lace in every living thing: the bare branches of winter, the patterns of clouds, the surface of water as it ripples in the breeze.... Even a wild dog's matted fur shows a lacy pattern if you look at it closely enough.

  Brunonia Barry

  Dog, Nature, Winter

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• I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.

  Graham Swift

  Dog, Animal, People

  Graham Swift (2012). “Shuttlecock”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

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• In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and not spider's webs, with fox fur and not fox innards? In the name of what I don't know. Don't dirt, trash and filth, which are man's companions during his whole lifetime, deserve to be dearer to him and isn't it serving him well to remind him of their beauty?

  Jean Dubuffet

  Men, Names, Doe

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• If you caught your kid raising cats in tiny boxes, forcing them to live in their own feces without clean air or sunlight, pulling their teeth and claws out with pliers to keep them from hurting each other…you’d rush him to a psychiatrist. But you support that very behavior every time you buy meat, eggs, dairy or fur.

  Dan Piraro

  Hurt, Cat, Kids

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• To lead the good life in New York, the two most important things for a woman are a chauffeur and a fur-lined raincoat. If you have those two things, you’re made.

  Iris Apfel

  New York, Good Life, Two

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• My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.

  Sandra Lee

  Fun, Years, Soul

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• My name is Echo. I dream of cats with stars in their fur.

  Erin Hunter

  Dream, Stars, Cat

  "Firestar's Quest". Book by Erin Hunter, 2007.

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• I got a fur shawl once. I was so disgusted! And I couldn't re-gift it. I don't know anyone who'd want fur.

  Jennie Garth

  Want, Vegetarian, Disgusted

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• The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to a time when people were selfish beyond belief. If you were some ancient tribal cheiftain, and there was not a department store nearby 350 years ago, I'd understand. But now, we have synthetic fibers,and it's not necessary. The elitism of fur makes me wanna puke.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Selfish, Thinking, Years

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• In some roles I have to wear fur, and I always make sure it's fake, like in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Faux fur is great because it shows people that faux can look fabulous.

  Kristen Johnston

  People, Fake, Spy

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• Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.

  Jeanne Schinto

  Dog, People, Training

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• Oh, that dog! Ever hear of a German Shepherd that bites its nails? Barks with a lisp? You say, "Attack!" And he has one. All he does is piddle. He's nothing but a fur-covered kidney that barks.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Dog, Shepherds

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• Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Light, Shapes, Modern

  "Big Bang Theory". www.elle.com. June 14, 2011.

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• The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot.

  Elinor Wylie

  Summer, Sweet, Fall

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.17, Kent State University Press

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• The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox.

  Maneka Gandhi

  Python, Snakes, Skins

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• People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps.

  Amy Gerstler

  Laughter, Dark, Winter

  Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.75, Penguin

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• To a valet no man is a hero.
  [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hero, Men, Dens

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• It's a soft-sounding word, 'never,' but its velvety timbre can't hide its sharp edges...Never pressed down on him. It grabbed him by the neck and shook him. He sucked in a deep breath, sucked in all that never and started to sneeze. Never filled his nose, his eyes, his soaking fur.

  Kathi Appelt

  Eye, Noses, Necks

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• A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is out grown.

  Pam Brown

  Yellow, Long, Childhood

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• His examiner said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature."
  "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart."

  Donald Barthelme

  Heart, Literature, Strange

  "Florence Green is 81". "Come Back, Dr. Caligari". Book by Donald Barthelme, 1964.

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• All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Make Out, I Can

  Mark Twain (2015). “Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books”, p.276, Lulu.com

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• i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing this and that of you, i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes over parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs, and possibly i like the thrill of under me you so quite new.

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Eye, Kissing

  'Sonnets-Actualities' no. 8 (1925)

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• [Fireheart] was interrupted by a screech from Cloudtail. "Fireheart! Fireheart, Brightpaw isn't dead!" Fireheart spun around and raced across the clearing to crouch beside Brightpaw. Her white-and-ginger fur, which, she had always kept so neatly groomed, was spiky with drying blood. On one side of her face the fur was torn away, and there was blood where her eye should have been. One ear had been shredded, and there were huge claw marks scored across her muzzle.

  Erin Hunter

  Eye, Blood, Should Have

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• Hooves clomping over the whitewashed planks, Doren sprinted along the boardwalk after Rondus, a portly satyr with butterscotch fur and horns that curved away from each other. Puffing hard, Rondus cut through a gazebo and started down the stairs to the field. Only a few steps behind, Doren went airborne and slammed into the heavyset satyr. Together they pitched violently forward into the grass, staining their skin green.

  Brandon Mull

  Cutting, Skins, Together

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2009). “Grip of the Shadow Plague”, p.364, Simon and Schuster

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• Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Trouble, Easy, Folks

  Alice Hegan Rice (2015). “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”, p.121, University Press of Kentucky

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