Fur Quotations

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

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

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.

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

The raccoons, foxes, beavers, chinchillas, minks, rabbits, and yes, sometimes even dogs and cats that are killed for fur are not very different from your beloved dog or cat. They all have eyes, ears and hearts. They all experience pain when they are physically maimed. They shake with fear when they experience terror.

When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls.

Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius.

I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.

I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped across dense, humped back muscle. A broad head lifted and I could see the dish-shaped muzzle was catching my scent. I knew bears. This was a grizzly.

I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

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

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.

The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada.

Since I was a little kid, I was against fur. I never wore fur in my life.

You can get fake fur, which, if that's what you want - if you want that fur look - it looks just the same. It's really unnecessary to skin an animal when you can get something that looks just the same without hurting anything.

I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.

When you study a dog you love, you find beauty in every small detail, and so it is with Lucille: I have become enchanted by the small asymmetrical whorls of white fur on either side of her chest, and by her tail, which she carries in a high confident curve, and by her eyes, which are watchful and intelligent, the color of chestnuts.

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

Subletting is great. You get to try on all these different versions of yourself. This apartment was clearly decorated by an artist - there's a great, big, huge chandelier and red fur rug, and it's all stuff that I would never, ever, ever buy.

Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.

I have a whole fur closet. I'm not afraid of PETA.

You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.

I am an urban vegan. I love the glossy pages of 'Vogue,' even though I won't purchase the leather shoes and bags I see there, and being reminded that the fur trade even exists breaks my heart.

It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.

I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

I'm a huge fur fan; it's no secret to anyone anymore.

Should we give away refrigerators? Sure. Trips? Yeah. Fur coats? Who cares. But when we turn the quest for medical care into Queen for a Day, we have gone too far -- ethically. A show that gives out good medicine as a prize is immoral.

No cat out of its first fur can be decieved by appearances.

Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys.

She takes big glossy advertisements for fur and she refuses to run any anti-fur ads, even paid ones, so she's a big fur supporter.

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

Note 4. For these and other reasons the cat is also very hard to photograph. The best photographs are instantaneous, as the mere breathing of a cat will blur the fur in a time exposure.

Growing up in a cold place, in Southern Ontario, Woolrich was a brand of choice for us because it was always warm and comfortable. The parka with the fur on it was standard fare for us. It's extraordinary that they have kept up with the times. Beyond the parka, they have changed, and they have some pretty hip, cool items which I wear.

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur

We're proud of all of our All-Americans, who work their fur off to support their schools.

I rescued Katie, a black Labrador retriever from West Union, Ohio and at about the same time my husband had a bundle of fur he named Bear show up at his apartment door. Bear is part Labrador.

Julien MacDonald may have been able to ignore images of bloody skinned animals gasping for breath in the past, but hopefully a dash of flour will help him rise to the occasion and forsake fur once and for all.

With the Summer Olympics in Beijing fast approaching, we hope the Chinese government will take action to restore the damage that the fur industry has done to the country's international reputation.

Members of the BFTA along with members of the European Fur Federation do not handle or offer for sale domestic cat and dog skins.

When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time I've ever had any in my life.

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.

Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.

I'd rather go naked than wear fur.

I just don't think animals should be slaughtered for their fur.

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

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.

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. From my mother's sleep, I fell into the State, and I hunched in its belly until my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died, they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

There's always a way to wear fur,

With women having their own careers, they didn't have to wait for their husbands to buy them fur coats.

Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

We want them to put a label on the fur that tells exactly how the animals lived and died. If the furs were labeled and consumers could make a choice with all of the information, I think the protest would end.

Each type of industry was on the march toward the West, impelled by an irresistible attraction. Each passed in successive waves across the continent. Stand at Cumberland Gap and watch the procession of civilization, marching single file-- the buffalo following the trail to the salt springs, the Indian, the fur trader and hunter, the cattle-raiser, the pioneer farmer --and the frontier has passed by. Stand at South Pass in the Rockies a century later and see the same procession with wider intervals between.

The reason is that so many designers have adopted fur -- full-fur garments, fur trim, fur accessories. The revival is really being driven by the designers.

The other ladies wore fur coats, and they looked like bears.

While his limited vision does not allow him to distinguish between a bear and a woman in a fur coat, we're sure he can adequately officiate the most important game of the season.

Unfortunately, fur is still flying off the racks. It's a billion dollar industry.

American shoppers would be shocked to learn that the little bit of fur trim on their collars or cuffs -- even if it's shaved or dyed pink or purple to look deceptively fake -- comes from real animals, possibly even dogs or cats. We are grateful to Reps. Ferguson and Moran for introducing the Truth in Fur Labeling Act of 2006, and we urge Congress to pass it quickly. Consumers have the right to make informed purchasing choices, and not to have the fur pulled over their eyes.

Protecting animals is very important to me, and I think speaking out against fur is an amazing cause.

There's nothing of the Old West in those places, and you see lots of fur coats and Rolls-Royces.

I liked (Wednesday) when we did Mongolia because we got to make llamas and paint them and put fur on them.

If you order a paperback book, slower delivery time via the mail or UPS is fine. But if you've ordered a fur coat, then FedEx is more of an option.

If you look at the historical context, the fur trade, and the beaver in particular, was responsible for the early exploration and settlement of Illinois. Back then, they were being harvested primarily for top hats. The under-fur was perfect for making into felt, which was made into top hats.

I've had my run-ins with department stores, like Harrods, which stopped selling fur coats, but I found some there with fur trim, which is just as disgusting. Foie gras production is appalling - there's no excuse for selling it.

I imagine the fur supply in town has gone way down.

It's really not that bad, except for the days when I'm running late and trying to get ready for work, which is just about every morning. That's when the fur really flies.

Not only is fur cruel, it's also totally gross. I mean, who wants to wear the skin of an abused animal? Not me!

If you show up in a fur coat, someone might not want to sell you their house if they feel strongly about fur. I don't think discrimination laws cover fashion -- they cover gender, familial status, age, race, sexual orientation in some states, but not fashion.

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

It's very odd to look at. This is the duck-billed platypus of journalism, an egg-laying mammal with fur - it's just something very bizarre.

Then stop being a know-it-all lionpaw retorted You're not my mentor so stay out of my fur. Lionpaw at Berrynose in Outcast pg 67

Tallstar stiffened and his neck fur bristled. 'Windclan was driven from the forest once,' he hissed. 'Never again. Our territory is ours, and we'll fight for it. Is Thunderclan with us?

The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers!

The fur is out of the house, now we want Pete out. We'd like to meet with him. We'd like to educate him on the real horrors behind the fur industry.

I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.

'You ain't got any tobacco,' he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum. 'I can see that at a glance. You're one of the non smoking sort, all fur and feathers.'

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

Just once I’d like to meet a fella who isn’t a phony. Somebody who doesn’t wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.

I'd say I am more of a comfort person. I have Adidas sneakers that are my favorite thing on the planet. Adidas high tops with black jeans and a fur hat that I love wearing. I love vintage shopping.

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

50s cheesecake meets Eskimo fake fur.

The Flinstones wore furs, they ate red meat, and had a stoneage philosophy. In fact, they were the first Republicans...

[Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse for it.

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.

I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.

I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.

I can look at a fur and tell if it's good or not.

I would never wear fur.

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

Divas need their furs!

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me." Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in a rough brick wall. "Mm," she agreed. "He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur.

There is no need for fur - since there are compassionate alternatives.

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."

The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed?

The direction is a mix of everything what you like, especially for this collection, masculine and feminine, ... For example ... you mix one pants with pin stripe like a man shape with a coat in chiffon and a fur collar, or another style is that you wear one coat like Chinese, with Chinese embroidery and you wear with a long skirt in a chiffon stretch and a crochet sweater.

The liveness in me just loves to feel the liveness in growing things, in grass and rain and leaves and flowers and sun and feathers and furs and earth and sand and moss.

...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur