Cotten Quotes & Sayings

[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't. — Margot Asquith

While ya'll are unsaddling, — Tell Cotten

The Ill Wind Promises"

When the oscillator hums, I'll hold your hand
When they come to get you, I'll pull you aside
When the engine purrs, I'll find the right words
When the music stops, your lips may have to part

When your baby's born, I'll carry his name
When your mother visits, I'll hide in your bed
When your husband comes by, I'll turn up the music
When the party's over, I'll hand you your handbag

When you kiss me, I'll stick a hand in your pocket
When your lover calls, I'll braid your hair
When they come to get you, I'll talk nonsense
When you're dead and gone, I'll smoke a cigarette — Ann Cotten

I stifled a yawn. It's too early to be such an asshat Daniel. — Michelle Hodkin

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

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

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

If you have to ask, ask for the ability to help others. — Debasish Mridha

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

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

Like and equal are not the same thing at all. — Madeleine L'Engle

Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper. — Haruki Murakami

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

I didn't care about the movies really. I was tall. I could talk. It was easy to do. — Joseph Cotten