We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt if they were able to formulate a religion they would depict the Devil in human form.

In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust straw and feathers.

Well I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

After 'Four Feathers ' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

I have made bouquets of pleats bouquets of flowers bouquets of ruffles bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline held tightly around the waist and with something else going on all around.

A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs I'd feel honored.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.