I grew up in the age of polyester. When I got to touch real silk, cotton and velvet, the feel of nonsynthetic… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
My father was a cotton farmer first and - but he didn't have any land or what land he had, he lost… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown... — Yohji Yamamoto Copy Share Image
Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I was so glad to get out of the cotton patch and stop pickin' cotton, I wouldn't of cared who come by… — Koko Taylor Copy Share Image
The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties… — Bob Livingston Copy Share Image
It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand… — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you… — Clementine Hunter Copy Share Image
When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay, Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away, Gone from… — Stephen Foster Copy Share Image
In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It presents an… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble. — John Gunther Copy Share Image
