Leopards Quotes

• A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

  Diana Vreeland

  World, Want, Wells

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• The leopard does not change his spots.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Doe, Spots

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• Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.

  Rumi

  Fighting, Winning, Color

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• A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Feelings, Doe, Credit

  "More Women Than Men". Book by Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1951.

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• A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll al ways be what he was born: a wild animal.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Change, Animal, Order

  Interview with Alex Haley, Playboy, April 1966.

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• My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

  Jackie Collins

  Weakness, Too Much, Print

  The Authors Speak Interview, jackiecollins.com. March 8, 2011.

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• There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

  Lily Tomlin

  Fun, Humorous, Skins

  "Fictional character: Judith Beasley". "The Incredible Shrinking Woman", 1981.

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• The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

  Jack Hanna

  Snow, Endangered Species, Leopard Print

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• I don’t have to be logical. I’m a leopard. We’re considered wild animals, you know.

  Amy Neftzger

  Animal, Logical, Knows

  "The Orphanage of Miracles". Book by Amy Neftzger, 2013.

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• I've never met a leopard print I didn't like.

  Diana Vreeland

  Mets, Print, Leopard Print

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• You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

  Holly Black

  Cat, House, Pretending

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't get a leopard to change his spots. In fact, now that I come to think of it, you can't really get a leopard to appreciate the notion that it has spots. You can explain it carefully to the leopard, but it will just sit there looking at you, knowing that you are made of meat. After a while it will perhaps kill you.

  Geoffrey K. Pullum

  Thinking, Knowing, Appreciate

  "Less Than Three Years: A Policy Revision". itre.cis.upenn.edu. January 04, 2007.

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• Lions make leopards tame.

  William Shakespeare

  Lions

  1595 Richard. Richard II, act 1, sc.1, l.174.

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• You cannot change the stripes of a leopard.

  Emmitt Smith

  Stripes

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• The Lord is a shoving leopard.

  William Archibald Spooner

  Lord

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• we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dream

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.60, Canongate Books

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• Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Animal, Design

  "Roberto Cavalli's Fashion Circus". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 27, 2010.

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• Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours,
  Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children,
  as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned
  from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively
  an interaction of man on man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Nature, Children

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This world without a leopard…I mean, who would want to be here?!

  Diana Vreeland

  Mean, World, Want

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• I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

  Bai Ling

  Beautiful, Eye, Long

  The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2006.

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• At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Snow, Mountain, Gonzo

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• As leopard feels at home with leopard.

  George Eliot

  Home, Feels

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• You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

  Michael Schur

  Thinking, Work Out, Slippers

  "Showrunner Michael Schur on building Parks And Recreation's fourth season". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. June 19, 2012.

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• I just love leopard print.

  Serena Williams

  Print, Leopard Print

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• Leopard print has been my thing forever! When I was a teenager my entire room was done in leopard print - it's timeless, chic, and always in style. When in doubt... leopard!

  Khloe Kardashian

  Teenager, Forever, Doubt

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