Texas Quotes

• If you want to get a good seat at a Texas A&M game or a University of Texas game, it depends on how much money you give the school.

  

  Bob McNair
  • Good
  • School
  • Money

• The thing about Texas is that it's a little larger than life.

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner
  • Life
  • Texas

• Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas. In 2012, North Dakota produced more than 245 million barrels of oil and provided nearly 11 percent of all U.S. output.

  

  John Hoeven
  • California
  • Texas

• Texas is so wrapped up in myth and legend, it's hard to know what the state and its people are really about. Real Texans, raised on these myths and legends, sometimes become legends themselves.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• Texas Democrats should be more concerned about what President Obama is doing to destroy the party, and the nation, than about what I am doing in going after him for that.

  

  Kesha Rogers
  • Party
  • Texas

• My Longhorns are registered and I am a member of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association.

  

  Janine Turner
  • Texas

• A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

  

  Brian Floca
  • Up
  • Great
  • Words

• The best thing about high school football in the state of Texas is the whole town shuts down, and there's shoe polish all over businesses and stores. Everyone rallies around you.

  

  Dat Nguyen
  • School
  • High
  • Football

• I travel all over the country, all over the world, and I'm happy to call Texas home.

  

  Jimmy Walker
  • World
  • Country
  • Home

• 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
  • Done
  • She
  • Man

• I think the post-Rick-Perry Texas is a Texas that is more competitive between the Democrats and Republicans. I think the Republicans still have a huge advantage, but I think if we're arguing that competition is good for the system, then I think a stronger two-party system in Texas is inevitable, and I think that it will happen.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Good
  • Party
  • Competition

• I guess you can't really turn a camera on outside in Texas without getting Terrence Malick comparisons.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Texas

• When someone is running for reelection in Texas, they're not looking for votes in California or New York.

  

  Ezra G. Levin
  • New York
  • Votes
  • Reelected

• When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they're afraid. They say, 'Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I'm scared. Please stop this from happening.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I saw that the incorporation of Texas into this Union would be indispensable both to her safety and ours. I saw that it was impossible she could stand as an independent power between us and Mexico without becoming the scene of intrigue of foreign powers, alike destructive of the peace and security of both Texas and ourselves.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • She
  • Power
  • Peace

• I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country.

  

  Jesse Metcalfe
  • People
  • Country
  • May

• The East Texas accent is a famously difficult accent to do.

  

  James Purefoy
  • Texas

• I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.

  

  Chris Bell Big Star
  • People
  • Effort
  • Fool

• I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

  

  Jim Evans
  • Texas

• As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, 'That's where all the crazy people go.' It really sort of frightened me.

  

  Jamie Foxx
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• You set something in modern-day Texas, which is so identifiable as the Old West, and everyone's wearing guns, so it looks like it's going to be, by default, partially considered a western.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • You
  • Like
  • Texas

• Everything I ever will be is because of Texas A&M University.

  

  John Sharp
  • Texas

• I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Love
  • History
  • Texas

• We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination.

  

  Jay Alan Sekulow
  • Up
  • Stop
  • Justice

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