Top 100 Cotton's Quotes
#1. 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.
Clementine Hunter
#2. If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet of cotton candy all around me that I've got to break through, like a brick wall or a fortress.
Mike Birbiglia
#3. I rapped my knuckles on Malina's door. The percussive sound seemed to offend the hallway's sense of decorum, and the quiet chastised me as it dropped into my ears like cotton balls.
Kevin Hearne
#4. 90 percent of the corn and cotton and 93 percent of the soy-beans planted in the U.S. last year were genetically modified.
Anonymous
#5. The South is full of memories and ghosts of the past. For me, it is the most inspiring place to write, from William Faulkner's haunted antebellum home to the banks of the Mississippi to the wind that whispers through the cotton fields.
Alexandra Adornetto
#6. What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.
Robert Wilson
#7. Affirmation: I am true royalty of God's Kingdom for eternity.
Everlasting priceless love and God bless all humanity. We R 1.
Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa
#8. Some eschew wine for their religion; others just don't cotton to it. A slew of Americans consider wine a fancy-schmancy treat for special occasions. They do not understand the concept of daily wine. It's as though you insisted on confetti and a swing-band at every meal.
Jennifer Rosen
#9. That's my girl. Tough as cotton balls." "Oh, shut up." A
Veronica Roth
#10. People didn't just wear wedding dresses in the past. They also wore plain cotton shifts beneath them. As pretty as the dresses might be, and as lovely as they might look on display, if a museum doesn't hang the shifts beside them or acknowledge that the shifts existed, that exhibit's incomplete.
Susanna Kearsley
#11. After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
Carl Perkins
#12. Mr. Blank's old friend is acting up again, and because our hero is no longer wearing the cotton trousers and underpants and is quite naked under the pajama bottoms, there is no barrier to prevent Mr. Bigshot from bounding out through the slit and poking his head into the light of day.
Paul Auster
#13. No, for God's sake, I'm not bloody suicidal. And I'm not proposing, either. Forget I said anything.
Michael Grant
#14. It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.
David Baldacci
#15. It's easier to sell cotton candy than it is to sell broccoli to somebody, but the broccoli is better for you, and the same thing with a limited government.
Marco Rubio
#16. I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets.
Woody Harrelson
#17. 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!
Red Buttons
#18. 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.
Eartha Kitt
#19. Just Silvia Cotton, not hurt or ticked off ... Just Silvia Cotton and she's just fine ... and I love her
Melodie Ramone
#20. 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.
Issey Miyake
#21. Only guys that are insecure in their manhood are afraid of tampons. They're just weird little cotton things. It's not like they're going to eat you.
Micalea Smeltzer
#22. Everything I do, I try to think, 'Okay, what are the ramifications?' Like, with the clothes I wear, I prefer if it's grown organically, because cotton - which is what's used in most clothing - takes up 50 percent of all pesticide use.
Woody Harrelson
#23. There's something of a painting of a woman that represents all women - and by extension, all of humanity - that I just find very exciting. It's a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive.
Will Cotton
#24. Colored or not, we all work for the white man's cotton ...
James Lee Burke
#25. Three hundred pages of cotton-soft parchment, bound up with a green ribbon. Her writing gushed in watery ripples over the pages, penmanship that called to mind the maddest intricate Belgian lace. Wrought on a pin's head but stretching for miles if unraveled.
Lyndsay Faye
#26. There's a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there's absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It's maddening! It's fiddly, and it pricks your fingers, and it's something that's a very hard skill if you have no alacrity for it.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#27. People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.
Will Cotton
#28. field beyond field beyond field of well-kept cotton, each tuft white as a senator's eyebrow.
Tom Franklin
#29. As an artist, it's possible to get tired of yourself.
Will Cotton
#30. Ye monsters of the bubbling deep,
Your Maker's praises spout;
Up from the sands ye codlings peep,
And wag your tails about
Cotton Mather
#31. Val was eating cornflakes. She ate very little else, at home. They were light, they were pleasant, they were comforting, and then after a day or two they were like cotton wool.
A.S. Byatt
#32. 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.
Charley Reese
#33. I'll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that's what people are ready for.
Tom Cotton
#34. Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.
Ann Cotton
#35. Christmas was gluing cotton balls to Santa's beard in Coke ads, sneaking candy canes off the tree daily (that my parents replaced every few nights), enough gift-wrap to wallpaper a room, the terror and delight of knowing a magical being would enter my home while I slept.
Thomm Quackenbush
#36. Not everyone can or will love you. You could run a cotton candy and unicorn farm and someone's gonna think you're an asshole. Everyone's fighting their own battle and it often has nothing to do with you.
Kathryn Budig
#37. Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
#38. At the onset of the Civil War, our stolen bodies were worth four billion dollars, more than all of American industry, all of American railroads, workshops, and factories combined, and the prime product rendered by our stolen bodies - cotton - was America's primary export.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#39. The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it's also an issue of economics because it's holding families, communities, and nations back. The chiefs are often a bridge between the traditional and the modern world and are very powerful implements to change.
Ann Cotton
#40. GMOs are found in nearly 80% of processed food in the United States. Currently, up to 92% of U.S. corn is consumed what are you eating GMO with zoe lister-jonesgenetically engineered, as are 94% of soybeans and 94% of cotton. In short, they are everywhere.
Zoe Lister-Jones
#41. You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day..
Cotton Fitzsimmons
#42. Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
J.G. Ballard
#43. Life is about balance. It's not about forgetting the bad times or escaping them. It's about creating enough good times to outweigh the bad.
Tommy Cotton
#44. 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.
Haile Gerima
#45. I'd heard of Vlad Dracul, but only the name. The kids at Cotton Maher never said much except things like "The football team's up against Vlad this Saturday. Pray for them."
When I'd heard that, I'd asked the kid who'd said it what the big deal was.
"Shut up," he'd explained.
Douglas Rees
#46. Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.
Yukio Mishima
#47. 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.
Malcolm X
#48. I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
Stephen Jay Gould
#49. Mississippi blood is different. It's got some river in it. Delta soil, turpentine, asbestos, cotton poison. But there's strength in it, too. Strength that's been beat but not broke.
Greg Iles
#50. 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.
Wyclef Jean
#51. More than a third of all the men, women, and children on this march perished from cold, starvation, and disease. Thanks to President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act, Cherokee land was left to white farmers who used it to grow cotton with slave labor and to mine gold.
Gloria Steinem
#52. I want to find a designer that can represent me. I want to find a celebrity that reflects me.
So far I've been dressing in cotton-polyester blends.
It's what Jerffrey Dahmer wore.
Christy Leigh Stewart
#53. Yet few slaveholders seem to be aware of the widespread moral ruin occasioned by this wicked system. Their talk is of blighted cotton crops
not of the blight on their children's souls.
Harriet Jacobs
#54. Genius, that one," Harper mutters. Cotton glares at her. "Don't worry, bro," Jaxon tells Cotton. "She's spicy. That's why we make a great couple. I like my women with a little ... " He shivers to emphasize his point.
Victoria Scott
#55. When I hug her, I notice she's still wearing yesterday's false eyelashes.
Mom? You know those come off with a little makeup remover and a cotton pad?"
I'm not taking them off."
Why not?"
I spent $180 on that makeup job and I refuse to wash my face until I get my money's worth.
Jen Lancaster
#56. 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.
Robin Williams
#57. Tis reason's part
To govern and to guard the heart,
To lull the wayward soul to rest,
When hopes and fears distract the breast;
Reason may calm this doubtful strife,
And steer thy bark through various life.
Nathaniel Cotton
#58. It's as if the whole world was fire and crystal and aquiver
with some sort of cotton wrappers thrown over it."
"Dust sheets," said Marjorie. "I know.
H.G.Wells
#59. Texas's main exports are cotton, oil, and preachers.
Sam Torode
#60. To be resigned when ills betide, Patient when favours are deni'd, And pleas'd with favours given,- Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part; This is that incense of the heart Whose fragrance smells to heaven.
Nathaniel Cotton
#61. Oh my dear now did you hear of clumsy Captain Cotton? He sailed a knot in Haley's Loch before hit the bottom!
Christina Daley
#62. In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.
Will Cotton
#63. It's important to remember that whatever the presidential candidates of either party say, they will have to interact with the United States Congress, particularly the Senate, when it comes to crafting policy.
Tom Cotton
#64. I don't do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That's why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.
B.B. King
#65. I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism. In this they are encouraged by wives and relatives, and it's such a sweet trap.
John Steinbeck
#66. That's why he'd bought her. He'd already imagined the children she'd bear and the cotton she'd pick and the house she'd clean every day of her life.
Daniel Black
#67. 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.
Gretchen Rubin
#68. How does someone keep a chicken inside a fence? I had closed my eyes at that one, picturing Cocky running off into the cotton fields, and me, standing at the edge of the fence, hollering the rooster's name like a crazy woman.
Alessandra Torre
#69. Brendon's big hands slid under her skirt and took hold of the plain white cotton panties she had to dig through her entire suitcase to find.
Shelly Laurenston
#70. The thing I love watching most is the swirling cotton candy. The contraption for making it is like a flat-bottomed pan. One puts sugar in it, turns the crank, and after a while, a large shimmering ball emerges; it's like cotton - and like silk, too. Indeed, there's nothing lovelier.
Can Xue
#71. Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.
Cotton Mather
#72. One lone tear streaked over the rose of her cheek and dropped to her collar, staining the cotton dark. Helen
Kelly Robson
#73. As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#74. The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.
Timothy Thomas Fortune
#75. Sex with a stranger makes you feel decadent, a risk taker, young again. Sex with a stranger is life on the edge. Everything else is life wrapped in cotton wool.
Chloe Thurlow
#76. Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#77. At base, financial literacy is inextricably connected to control over one's future.
Ann Cotton
#78. Heya, Arlene. What's shakin'?" Cotton greeted.
"Don't shift some of this weight, everything," Arlene replied.
Kristen Ashley
#79. I have a basic philosophy that I've tried to follow during my coaching career. Whether you're winning or losing, it's important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.
Cotton Fitzsimmons
#80. It's an honor to win the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award.
Peter Uihlein
#81. On God for all events depend; You cannot want when God's your friend. Weigh well your part and do your best; Leave to your Maker all the rest.
Nathaniel Cotton
#82. Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.
Ann Cotton
#84. My perspective is hard because I look at wardrobe from very much a guy's perspective. You look at my closet and I have pairs of black jeans and five button-downs, but one's silk, one's cotton. They all are slightly different, so that's my perspective.
Erin Wasson
#86. I grew up in the age of polyester. When I got to touch real silk, cotton and velvet, the feel of nonsynthetic fabrics blew me away. I know it's important how clothing looks, but it's equally important how it feels on your skin.
Colleen Atwood
#87. Shoot the pasties off the nipples of a ten-foot bull-dyke and win a cotton-candy goat.
Hunter S. Thompson
#88. You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.
Ann Cotton
#89. She is but a woman and many unsound and dangerous principles are held by her.
John Cotton
#90. This stuff is better than cotton candy, really it is. It's made out of real cotton. Yossarian, you've got to help me make the men eat it. Egyptian cotton is the finest cotton in the world.
Joseph Heller
#91. The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall.
Michael Lee West
#92. Then Cotton quotes Luke 12:48. "To whom much is given, of him God will require the more." Of course there's a catch, Spider-Man. When God is the landlord, Cotton says, "defraud him not of his rent." The price? Obedience.
Sarah Vowell
#93. Rose wasn't 'ordinary'. What was I supposed to do? Wrap her in cotton wool? Tell her 'Here, I could give you the universe, but I'm not going to in case you get hurt? There's all this stuff out there, all these planets, all these wonders, but I want you to stay at home and work in a shop?
Jacqueline Rayner
#94. Someone's opinion can be right on target, or it also could be cluttered with their doubts. Therefore, be careful, do not make someone else's opinion your law.
Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa
#95. Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.
Ira Gershwin
#96. Fantasies don't have to make any sense," he snapped. "That's what makes them fantasies. They aren't meant to be logical, they're meant to keep you from losing your mind or panicking or wanting to kill yourself.
Michael Grant
#97. Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B.B. King
#98. Poverty is more than a material experience; it's a psychological state as well, one that is infused with anxiety. And decision-making is very complex because every decision you make has an impact on your future and survival.
Ann Cotton
#99. When I was starting, there were wool mills in the U.S. that could make you anything. The U.S. used to produce the most beautiful cotton denim in the world. Now all that is gone.
Anna Sui
#100. Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the cotton field, and last, but certainly foremost, the boy's boarding school.
Loudon Wainwright III
