Cotton Quotes

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.

I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have felt myself bound to stop it. The gold can have but one use - the purchase of arms and ammunition... Of course, I have respected all permits by yourself or the Secretary of the Treasury, but in these new cases (swarms of Jews), I have stopped it.

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course. Just as cotton manufactures were created by the help of protective tariffs, export bounties, and indirect wage subsidies, laissez-faire was enforced by the state.

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

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

A much larger value is consumed in lettuces than in pineapples,throughout Europe at large; and the superb shawls of Cachemere are, in France, a very poor object in trade, in comparison with the plain cotton goods of Rouen.

Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.

I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.

I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.

When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with a high thread count. Only cotton. No flannel.

When Anderson walks into a room, you can hear a rat pissing on cotton.

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high.

Cotton candy. Like eating a cloud of diabetes.

See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.... Ain't nobody now can play the blues that I play.

Samson told Delilah loud and clear, keep your cotton picken fingers out of my hair.

Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

Summertime And the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.

There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.

That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

Her bra was cotton and white and, bless its little frickin´ heart, had a front clasp.

I am a huge fan of big cotton underpants; they're comfortable. I wear them every day.

Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.

Dean Martin's great-great-uncle, Ebenezer Martin, who said to Eli Whitney, I see the cotton, but where's the gin? Never got a dinner!

Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

I'm a cotton-headed ninny muggins.

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

I did [picking cotton] from - until I was 18 years old, that is. Then I picked the guitar, and I've been picking it since.

I feel best in soft and natural materials such as cotton and silk. I wear collections from all designers. They all have outstanding cuts and extremely pleasant materials.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?

I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.

I quite enjoy a high-waisted cotton panty.

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.

I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.