Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eli Whitney

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

Robert Wilson

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.

Marla Shavin

Natural fabrications such as linen, silk, cotton sateen and voile are the foundation for this trend.

Bob Livingston

I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane!

Steve Lund

Welcome Back, Cotton. We're delighted. The Cotton is back, and it's better than ever.

J. G. Ballard

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.

Percy Sledge

As a kid, on the cotton fields, I had this tune in my head. I hummed it and sang it. It was the same melody as 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' I could never, ever forget it.

Hoss Johnson

We were going to play these games even if it was in a rice patty or a cotton field. If there is anything we can do when we are down there, we are going to do it.

Nate Berkus

Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.

David Tepper

There is a time to make money and a time to not lose money.

Ben Stein

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

Bill Gates

You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses

Bill Gurley

You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction

Benjamin Franklin

Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.

Balthazar Getty

Life started getting good when I started making money.

Dee Dee Warwick

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

Dave Ramsey

Work is a surefire money-making scheme.

Amar Bose

I never went into business to make money.

Brian Williams

When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

Steve Martin

I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing.

Patricia Cornwell

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

Mary Kay Ash

Nothing wilts faster than a laurel rested upon.