I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a reindeer, ships of Swedish maple.
Quotes about furs (14 Quotes)
Tyrion Lannister was bundled in furs so thickly he looked like a very small bear
We really have some people, especially women, who go all out. They rent limos for before and dress up in the formalwear and the furs.
If you look around, you don't see young women wearing furs, you see matronly women wearing furs. Furs are no longer chic.
We don't want people to think they have to put on pearls and furs to see opera. We want people to feel comfortable and have an engaging experience. We want them to be challenged by the material, but not by the economics. Opera is not just for the wealthy.
I think the secret of her success is that she cuts furs exactly as if she's cutting (the) fabric of her ready-to-wear collection. So she achieves that long, narrow line without sacrificing anything.
Divas need their furs!
Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
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.
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.
Good people, things will never go well in England so long as goods be not in common, and so long as there be villeins and gentlemen. By what right are they whom we call lords greater folk than we On what grounds have they deserved it Why do they hold us in serfage If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than we, if it be not that they make us gain for them by our toil what they spend in their pride They are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and fir bread and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. They have leisure and fine houses we have pain and labour, the rain and the wind in the fields. And yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold their state.
As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.
The furs used in these costumes were mostly road kill. And the clothes are all connected with sinew. This work is both archeological and anthropological, and I've never known any other project of this type that has been done on this level. It's fantastic.