Cotton Quotations | Page 2

There was a time this year when I didn't think we'd break 900 pounds. We probably lost more cotton on the ground statewide before the hurricanes, and they probably shaved 100 pounds off our yield.

There is one fabric made of paper yarn -- that's a paper and cotton mix. So it's a bit like taking linen flax, but actually paper pulp, and making it into fabrics.

There isn't a better season for these guys because they have been through a lot. To go out with a 10-2 record and a win at the Cotton Bowl, that would be good.

I told them to get Cody up at 4 a.m. for the Cotton Bowl so he'd think it was afternoon by the time the game started.

It puts in a little cotton fiber and a little bit of color.

It's not just a bowl that your players have heard about for a long, long time, but their parents and their grandparents have. There isn't anyplace in America that's insulated from the Cotton Bowl and its tradition.

The audiences at places like the Cotton Club were very sophisticated musically, and wanted to be challenged, not just entertained. There were frequent battles of the bands.

It's cotton candy for the election cycle, quite frankly.

I wanted young kids to have the opportunity to idolize pro players the way I idolized the North American Soccer League players, ... I volunteered with the committee in Dallas, and when the committee resigned itself that they couldn't get a team and closed up shop, we went to work and negotiated the contract for the Cotton Bowl. I got the North Texas State Soccer Association to give its support.

Socks made of 100 percent cotton were the worst in blister formation.

That's all we heard since the Auburn game. Everybody wanted to forget about our nine wins to start the season. I don't care what people say about me, but the fact we're going out with the Cotton Bowl championship and a 10-2 record, that shows we've got this program headed in the right direction. That's a great way to go.

The last thing I want to do is be mollycoddled or be wrapped up in cotton wool, because if I was to join the Army, I would want to go where my men went, and I'd want to do what they did. I would not want to be kept back for being precious, or whatever - that's the last thing I would want.

I like to watch the cotton float down to the river, it's really a pretty site.

I have seen few things as beautiful as a 6:30am lift-off from San Francisco International Airport in the autumn. From above, the rippled fog layer laps against the shores of the foothills like a voluminous cotton ocean.

In the morning, I use a Philosophy cleanser and Olay Regenerist Daily 3 Point Treatment Cream, which sinks in well and feels firming. I rarely wear foundation, so cotton wool soaked in warm water is often enough to cleanse at night, but I take off eye make-up with Klorane's cornflower-infused remover.

If you've worn cotton socks and they get soaking wet, they bunch and you get blisters and you think that is the way it is...it doesn't have to be that way.

I read a history book that said there once was a cotton gin in Ewing,

CLARIONET, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet --two clarionets.

But if they ever saw a sunrise on a mountain morning/Watched those cotton candy clouds roll by/They'd know why I live beneath these Western Skies.

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

B.W. was kind of an interesting man. He was a realist. He had to make a cotton crop and go on. He became a state senator and was involved in Reconstruction. He was involved in the (Gov. Francis T.) Nicholls government and in the fight against the lottery.

But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her,barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my windowin one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor.She will look in at me with her thin arms extended,offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.

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.

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.

I asked Kenny to sit in. Richie Furay, Rusty Young and Paul Cotton (from Poco) were there, too.

How many soaps does P&G make? In a sense, they're all the same. Can you tell me the difference between trading soybeans, cotton and rubber? They're all soaps to us.

If David stays here he will not be involved in the game in France and he will be put into cotton wool for the week,

I'm into cotton underwear. I don”t need cheetah print leather to make me feel sexy.

I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day.

Tom Cotton voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola...

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.

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.

The kids definitely like it. I'd say the cotton candy is the most popular thing in here. That and the hats. People like those a lot.

The increase in U.S. exports came as a surprise and it's good news. Export demand for U.S. cotton is very good and encouraging to the market. The U.S. exports are to go to China as seen in their increase in imports.

A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cotton cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful.

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

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

Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton.Read

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

I'm a cotton-headed ninny muggins.

The New York Times, whose editorial department sounds like Cotton Mather rewriting Eleanor Roosevelt...

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

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

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.

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

The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton, by milk and wool, by meat and timber, and by rice. These are words that translate into every language.

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.

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

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.

Let there be worse cotton and better men.

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.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.