Texas Quotes - Page 6

• I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows than I've ever done science fiction shows. I was on 'Murder She Wrote,' I was on 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' I was on 'Jake and the Fat Man.'

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Men, Police, Jake

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• Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

  George Strait

  Bob, Band, Playboy

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• I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven't made it to Australia yet, but someday I'm going.

  George Strait

  Australia, Bahamas, Mexico

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• I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou.

  George Strait

  Hunting, Utah, Mules

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• Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He's definitely a cowboy. He's from Texas.

  Christina Milian

  Cowboy, Littles, Intimidating

  "Christina Milian talks Be Cool!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. February 24, 2005.

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• Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Kentucky, Constitution, Poor

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• I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they're getting a chance to be as good as they can be.

  Alan Bean

  Blessed, Lucky, Chance

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• Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.

  Ricky Williams

  Special, Welcome, Tradition

  "Texas to unveil 8-foot, 1000-pound Ricky Williams statue". www.businessinsider.com. February 24, 2012.

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• The last thing Texas women need in their lives is Greg Abbott.

  Wendy Davis

  Needs, Lasts, Life Is

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• They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in the sun. What do you want to do? said the kid. Get a drink of water. Other than that. I dont know. You want to try and head back? To Texas? I don't know where else. We'd never make it. Well you say. I aint got no say. He was coughing again. He held his chest with his good hand and sat as if he'd get his breath. What have you got, a cold? I got consumption. Consumption? He nodded. I come out here for my health.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Kids, Hands, Water

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.61, Vintage

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• The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.

  Garrison Keillor

  Men, Envy, Waiting

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• I talked to my little brother, Jeb - I haven't told this to many people. But he's the governor of - I shouldn't call him my little brother - my brother, Jeb, the great Governor of Texas.

  George W. Bush

  Brother, People, Littles

  "The Complete Bushisms" by Jacob Weisberg, www.slate.com. March 20, 2009.

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• Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Time, Night, Years

  Thomas Wolfe (2016). “Look Homeward, Angel”, p.4, Thomas Wolfe

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• Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

  Richard Linklater

  Years, People, Proud

  "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• My one-time roommate Claire had inherited the house from her uncle, and when she went off to bigger and better things, she’d left it in my care. And it needed a lot of it. Most importantly, it needed a new roof. There was a worrying stain on the ceiling of my bedroom that had started out roughly the shape of Rhode Island, but now looked more like North Carolina. Another few more days of rain and it was going to be Texas. And then it wouldn’t be anything at all because the battered old shingles were going to cave in on my head.

  Karen Chance

  Uncles, Rain, Rhode Island

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• By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Darkness, Heat

  Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.1, Macmillan

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• There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of the land.

  Katherine Dunn

  Men, Years, Land

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.199, Vintage

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• We’re on the moon,” Sadie murmured. “El Paso, Texas,” Bast corrected.

  Rick Riordan

  Moon, Sadie, El Paso

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• She dug in her backpack, found her cell phone, and checked for coverage. It was kind of lame in Morganville, truthfully, out in the middle of the prarie, in the middle of Texas, which was about as middle of nowhere as it was possible to get unless you wanted to go to Mongolia or something.... Claire started dialing numbers. The first person told her that they'd already found somebody.... The second one sounded like a weird old guy. The third one was a weird old lady. The fourth one... well, the fourth one was just plain weird.

  Rachel Caine

  Phones, Cells, Numbers

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• I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state

  Drew Brees

  Football, Grew Up, States

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• But in Indiana it's not like New York where everyone's like, 'We're from New York and we're the best' or 'We're from Texas and we like things big' it's more like 'We're from Indiana and we're gonna move.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, New York, Moving

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

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• In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky.

  Piper Perabo

  Clouds, Sky, Hot

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• Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas— he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't expect anyone to do the same for him.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Mercy, Bigs

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.274, Penguin

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• I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.

  Bill Hicks

  Museums, Dallas, Causes

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• Making sure every child can read, making sure that we encourage faith-based organizations ... when it comes to helping neighbors in need, making sure that our neighborhoods are safe, making sure that the state of Texas recognizes that people from all walks of life have got a shot at the Texas dream but, most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.

  George W. Bush

  Dream, Children, Organization

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