Cotton Quotes · Page 3

Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool.

— Peter Lawford

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell…

— Kathryn Lasky

I try to keep my feet on the ground. Even though I appreciate the fame and adoration, I remember once I used…

— Charley Pride

The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity...…

— Hermann Minkowski

If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the…

— Sivananda

I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water;…

— Erik Satie

I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks…

— Phil Robertson

I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.

— Anais Nin

So what’s it like to live without emotions? (Geary) It’s hard. Imagine a world without taste. A world where you can see…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

[Tom Cotton] is seen as a real rising star in the Republican Party. He`s the youngest member of the United States Senate,…

— Rachel Maddow

I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was…

— Lena Horne

I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and…

— John Hunter

Being the son of a handloom weaver, I have knowledge of cotton and some other material.

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.

— Yukio Mishima

Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and,…

— Marshall McLuhan

My perspective is hard because I look at wardrobe from very much a guy's perspective. You look at my closet and I…

— Erin Wasson

There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last…

— Ben Hecht

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films…

— Robert Redford

I'd have to pick cotton for a year to make what I'd make in a week in L.A.

— Glen Campbell

I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.

— Lena Horne

The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds…

— Calvin Coolidge

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's…

— Carl Perkins

That cotton trade was almost the deal breaker for me. It was at that point that I said, “Mr. Stupid, why risk…

— Paul Tudor Jones

You should spend your money on some nice lingerie. Big wool cotton pants, that just doesn't work. You have to feel sexy.

— Heidi Klum