Cotten Quotes

#1. Atop a Ferris wheel, Orson Welles told Joseph Cotten how Italy's thirty years of war and terror and bloodshed had produced the Renaissance and Michelangelo, and how Switzerland's five hundred years of democracy and peace had produced, goddamn, only the cuckoo clock.

Kevin Wilson

#2. Joseph Cotten, who said, You know how I got my name? Sammy Davis picked it for me. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#3. My wife told me one of the sweetest things one could hear: 'I am not jealous. But I am truly sad for all the actresses who embrace you and kiss you while acting, for with them, you are only pretending.'

Joseph Cotten

#4. Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning ... the faithful horse has been with us always.

Elizabeth Cotten

#5. Everything gets old if you do it often enough.

Ellen Burstyn

#6. Our inner wisdom is persistent, but quiet. It will always whisper, but it will never stop knocking at your door.

Vironika Tugaleva

#7. I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved.

Elizabeth Cotten

#8. Life has a way of dismantling us, piece by piece and then allowing us to redesign ourselves, to keep the parts that work and discard those that no longer fit.

Toni Sorenson

#9. I didn't care about the movies really. I was tall. I could talk. It was easy to do.

Joseph Cotten

#10. Discovery's friend is creativity

Phillip Gary Smith

#11. It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

Maya Lin

#12. While ya'll are unsaddling,

Tell Cotten

#13. Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man - and I'm in all of them.

Joseph Cotten

#14. If I killed them, you know, they couldn't reject me as a man. It was more or less making a doll out of a human being ... and carrying out my fantasies with a doll, a living human doll.

Edmund Kemper

#15. Rich said, "As your get older, feelings are harder to come by." It was so simple and poignant.

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

#16. Ben Says: Keep shinning your light throughout the world's darkness...bright enough for all of humanity to see!

Timothy Pina~Bullying Ben

Timothy Pina

#17. One writes to find words' meanings.

Joy Williams