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.

Yes you can lose somebody overnight yes your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

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.

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.

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.