Houston Quotes - Page 7

• First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

  Earl Campbell

  Football, Team, Cities

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• The University of Houston has made an excellent choice by hiring Ron Hughey as its new women's basketball coach. Coach Hughey will bring an expertise and energy level to the program that will excite fans and put Houston Women's Basketball back on the map. Having watched him coach up close, I know his players will improve immensely and love learning from him. I look forward to following Houston Basketball in the years to come.

  Mike Thibault

  Basketball, Player, Years

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• The voice of an Angel, the Heart of a Lamb, the spirit of a Lioness, the presence of a Goddess, love you R.I.P Whitney Houston.

  Wyclef Jean

  Love You, Heart, Angel

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2012

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• Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston. My heartfelt condolences to Whitney's family and to all her millions of fans throughout the world. She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth.

  Mariah Carey

  Heartbroken, Condolences, Voice

  FaceBook post by Mariah Carey from Feb 12, 2012

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• If we believe [Obama] to be a good man who would never kill noncombatants in a cafe in Houston, sitting out in a sidewalk cafe, smoking - oh, that's right you're not allowed to smoke cigarettes anymore.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Men, Smoking

  "The 10 Best Lines From Rand Paul's Incredible Filibuster On Civil Liberties" by Grace Wyler, www.businessinsider.com. March 06, 2013.

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• I thought Denver and Seattle was a big game but Houston and Dallas is the kind of game that as players, we want to play in. I haven’t missed playing in the National Football League, but every year there are one or two games that makes me wish I could tee it up in that game one more time.

  Sterling Sharpe

  Football, Player, Two

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• Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The autotargeting was taking us right into a ... crater, with a large number of big boulders and rocks ... and it required ... flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area.

  Neil Armstrong

  Rocks, Numbers, Long

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• Know your load. That's rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I'm not going to be the schmuck who shows up in Orlando twobirds short of a dinner party....I know I'm pulling out of Houston with exactly forty-two Gentoo penguins, seventeen Jamaican land iguanas, four tuataras from New Zealand, and a pair of rare, civet-like mammals called linsangs. No more, no less.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Party, Land, Two

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• I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding that leaves the Freudian schools of technique and theory far behind. The accent is not on the curing of disease but on the enlargement, rather, of our health.

  Joseph Campbell

  School, Thinking, Broken

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• The Houston Astros want to change the name of Enron Field where they play. I guess the Enron name could cause problems for them. Like players could steal a base and then deny it.

  Jay Leno

  Player, Names, Want

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• J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houstons newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.

  Hannah Storm

  Sports, Friday, Football

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• Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.

  Noah Baumbach

  Manhattan, World, Way

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 09, 2005.

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• If I could, I would live in Houston, and I would encourage any comic starting out looking for a good place to develop to move there.

  Joe Rogan

  Moving, Starting Out, Comic

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• I always feel like there are specific things about Houston. There's one museum in particular in Houston. So many of the things that I'm interested in now I can sort of trace back to that museum, which introduced me to them.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Museums, Feels, Particular

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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