Austin Quotes

• Austin 3:16 says I just whipped your @$$!

  Stone Cold Steve Austin

  Wrestling, Wwe, Wwf

  FaceBook post by Stone Cold Steve Austin from Feb 12, 2016

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• I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

  Verne Troyer

  Opportunity, Careers, One Day At A Time

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.

  Jay Roach

  Littles, Surprise, Caught

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

  Uma Thurman

  Timing, Comic, Shows

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• During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.

  Chris Ware

  Change, School, Texas

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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• I always love to come to Austin.

  R. Lee Ermey

  "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Prequel" set visit: Q&A with R. Lee Ermey". Interview with Staci Layne Wilson, www.horror.com. November 21, 2005.

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• We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!

  Alan Vega

  Country, Emo, Texas

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• In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.

  Michael McCaul

  Writing, Government, Independence

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• People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.

  Robert Rodriguez

  People

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• Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?

  Verne Troyer

  Mean, Able, Beats

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

  J. L. Austin

  Acting, Purpose, Done

  "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 273), 1979.

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• Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

  J. L. Austin

  Character, Heirs, Ill

  "Performativity". Book by James Loxley, p. 81, 2006.

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• Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

  J. L. Austin

  Latin, Done, Models

  "A Plea for Excuses". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1956.

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• Sentences are not as such either true or false.

  J. L. Austin

  Fake People, True Or False, Sentences

  "Sense and Sensibilia" by J. L. Austin, (p. 111), 1962.

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• In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

  John Cale

  New York, Cities, Social

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• What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?

  Al Yankovic

  Artist, Kind, Newspapers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.

  Mike Myers

  Ties, Car, Sound

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• I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?

  Keith Richards

  Rooms

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• To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

  Mark Twain

  Differences, Salary, Impossible

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• (On returning to Austin to run at his collegiate stadium) It is almost like coming home with the crowd, the people, and it just brings it home for me. For me, it is a very special place, it is great energy, and again I always seem to run very well here. So I love coming back.

  Leonel Manzano

  Running, Home, Athlete

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• The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they trek through eerie catacombs, mysterious ruins, and creepy castles that defy imagination. One part Indiana Jones, a handful of Swiss Family Robinson, and some Intergalactic excitement, the Quest for Truth is a riveting tale of just how far mankind will go for the ultimate prize.

  Wayne Thomas Batson

  Kids, Eerie, Imagination

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• She chews her lip, staring into my eyes. "Okay... Why did you kiss me in Austin?" I laugh softly and she frowns. "Sorry. That one's too easy." My gaze flicks to her mouth and back. "I'd wanted to kiss you ever since Quinton suggested playing spin the bottle, and by that night in your room, I'd run out of willpower to fight it.

  Tammara Webber

  Running, Sorry, Eye

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.328, Tammara Webber

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• My money's on the big Indian,' someone was saying. I peeked up to see that Tyler, Mike, Austin and Ben had there heads bent together, deep in conversation. 'Yeah,' Mike whispered. 'Did you see the size of that Jacob kid? I think he could take Cullen down.' Mike seemed pleased by the idea.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Kids, Thinking, Ideas

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Eclipse”, p.59, Hachette UK

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• You have more issues than National Geographic by Austin LeFleur in Hissy Fit

  Mary Kay Andrews

  Issues, Fit, National Geographic

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• Austin had a concussion tonight. That's the way it goes for us. We get one back, we lose one. Or lose two. We've had the most difficult time the last two years just keeping a full roster. Hopefully at some point at the end of the tunnel some good things can happen for the Indiana Pacers.

  Jermaine O'Neal

  Years, Two, Tunnels

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