Bankruptcy, divorce, these are feathers in my cap, I suppose. I have a wisdom which has been born from these things.

When you're surrounded by feathers and sequins and ridiculous Lycra outfits, it's impossible not to have a smile on your face.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

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!

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.

Sometimes you have to stand up for what's right, and sometimes that may be ruffling feathers and may be frowned upon by everyone else, but at the end of the day in your heart, knowing you're on the right side of history and knowing that you did the right thing, good or bad, you have to live with that.

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.

A heart without dreams is like a bird without 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.

I'm always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car pool line.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.

Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind

I almost cried. But I didn't, because if you're in seventh grade and you cry while wearing a blue floral cape and yellow tights with white feathers on the butt, you just have to curl up and die somewhere in a dark alley.

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!

"Hope is the thing with feathers

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.