William B. Travis Quotes

I think that Texas is forever ruined unless the citizens make a manly, energetic effort to save themselves from anarchy and confusion, which are the worst of all evils. Let us march like a band of brothers.

William B. Travis

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• If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • People
  • Say
  • Other

• If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer or that every other bit of food that we're eating is not safe. If they were a really honest foundation, they would call themselves the anti-GM foundation.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Food
  • Eating
  • Foundation

• My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • School
  • Mother
  • City

• For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Done
  • City
  • Space

• I just have work to do; I just do it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Work
  • Just
  • Just Do It

• Mom! It's the cops! I'm gonna get nicked, I'm gonna get nicked!

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Mom

• What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Red
  • Wine

• 'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'

  

  Edward Abbey

• The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Up
  • Picture

• All my favourite pop songs are the most stupid ones, the ones that are the most obvious.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Stupid

• I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.

  

  James Rollins
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Done

• Everyone wants something that'll appeal to, like, 13-year-olds to 18-year-olds. Especially working in television and trying to pitch shows, they're like, 'We definitely want something that a 14-year-old will be, like, super-psyched about.' And I'm like, 'I don't know if my reality is appealing to a 14-year-old.'

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Trying
  • Reality

• And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • World
  • Work

• Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Free
  • Focus
  • Fire

• What I have noticed is that no two places in Calcutta are alike. I like the bylanes and the old places. This city has a lot of character.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Character
  • City

• And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Home
  • Stop
  • Sea

• When I met my wife, I was focused on making money but failing miserably.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Money
  • Wife

• I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

  

  Emma Watson

• Mr. Trump's election has caused a tectonic shift in advertising - just as it has in media more generally - and themes that might have once seemed innocuous or patriotic have suddenly become politically charged, controversial, and divisive.

  

  James B. Stewart
  • Trump
  • Patriotic

• Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.

  

  Ben Parr
  • Life
  • World
  • True

• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Good
  • Different
  • Bad

• I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Music
  • Heard

• I think that Texas is forever ruined unless the citizens make a manly, energetic effort to save themselves from anarchy and confusion, which are the worst of all evils. Let us march like a band of brothers.

  

  William B. Travis
  • Thinking
  • Evil
  • Forever