#leather

Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#administration #assets #corporation #i #later

The leather community is largely anarchistic and shares a healthy distrust of power and arrogance. ↗

— Geoff Mains

#bdsm #leather #anarchy

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes. ↗

— Marlon Brando

#away #bamboo #catching #close #come

Given involuntarily, and in an atmosphere of distrust, pain is torture, whatever the motive," suggests David. "But given consensually, between equals, pain can be a most incredible form of love. ↗

— Geoff Mains

#leather #love #pain #equality

I want to upholster the inside lining of my nostrils with leather, to have that "new car smell" all the time. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #leather #new-car-smell #strange

In the world of animals, pain serves an equivocal role. Parental nips and swipes are common tools in upbringing. And socially, pain is sometimes used to maintain hierarchies of dominance. But this animal use of pain seems somewhat restrained, at least in contrast with the human situation. Here the capacity for pain is often used to systematically exploit and oppress at intensities often far beyond those seen in the behaviour of our nearest primate relatives. At the same time, at least in western culture, pain is rarely used for pleasure. Is it little wonder that all pain is viewed as intrinsically evil? Or that the pain-pleasure of leatherspace has been labelled torture? ↗

— Geoff Mains

#leather #pain #pleasure #bdsm

Look I'm standing naked before you Don't you want more then my sex I can scream as loud as your last one But I can't claim innocence Oh God Could it be the weather Oh God Why am I here If love Isn't forever And it's not the weather Hand me my leather I could just pretend that you love me The night would lose all sense of fear But why do I need you to love me When you can't Hold what I hold dear Oh God Could it be the weather Oh God Why am I here If love Isn't forever And it's not the weather Hand me my leather I almost ran over an angel He had a nice big fat cigar "In a sense" he said "You're alone here So if you jump you best jump far" Oh God Could it be the weather Oh God Why am I here If love Isn't forever And it's not the weather Hand me my leather ↗

— Tori Amos

#love

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#clothes #discussion #even #fur #handbags

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football. ↗

— Stephen Chow

#dream #football #i #leather #poor

My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love. ↗

— Cat Deeley

#confidence #dress #friend #gives #leather