Texas Quotes

• I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Teacher
  • Drama
  • Texas

• I want to thank Texas Lutheran for the opportunity to coach the women's basketball program. I will miss the players, the coaches and the many people that make TLU a special place.

  

  Ashley Smith
  • People
  • Women
  • Opportunity

• A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.

  

  J. Frank Dobie
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • Texas

• I'm from Texas. You would think my biggest draw would be in that state. But my biggest draw is Pennsylvania.

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Texas

• Even without mandatory sentences, judges are still capable of levying tough penalties for serious offenses - and just as in states like Texas that have 'tough on crime' reputations, this can be done without jeopardizing public safety.

  

  Ken Cuccinelli
  • Done
  • Serious
  • Safety

• A lot of small towns in Texas have only volunteer fire departments. And even though they're called volunteer fire departments, they are usually very professional and have great training and usually have good equipment.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Good
  • Great
  • Small

• The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often been given a shot in the history of art.

  

  Clifford Ross
  • People
  • Art
  • History

• One of my favorite books is 'Armadillo Rodeo', and I got the idea from traveling to Texas and seeing armadillos.

  

  Jan Brett
  • Texas

• Unlike Texas Rangers, we actors don't have a stop date, so I don't know about retiring. Sometimes I want to stop acting, but then you get a good script!

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Texas

• Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Life
  • Texas

• I love Dallas, Austin and Houston. Why? Because some of the best comedians, like Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison, started their careers in Texas, and because the crowds there are comedy-educated.

  

  Bobby Lee
  • Why
  • Comedy
  • Texas

• Current and former Assistant Attorneys General have a duty to follow all rules related to the practice of law in the state of Texas.

  

  Jeffrey C. Mateer
  • Law
  • Practice
  • Texas

• Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

  

  Don Baylor
  • People
  • Everyday
  • Texas

• I left school my senior year to do a play at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas. Then while I was doing a play, I auditioned for Juilliard. I got in over the summer, and they told me, 'You have to graduate high school to come here. You don't need the SATs, but you do need to graduate high school.' I finished over the summer through correspondence.

  

  Lee Pace
  • School
  • High
  • Theatre

• I came from Texas, I was studying theater at NYU, and I thought for sure that my lot in life would be to get the best bartending job I could find and do theater in New York. And that was a good life.

  

  James Roday
  • Life
  • Good
  • Job

• George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam.

  

  Peter Jennings
  • Air
  • Texas

• Hermes scarf designers can be found in places from Poland to Japan, not to mention the U.S. post-office sorting room in Waco, Texas. Kermit Oliver, a longtime postal employee, has designed more than a dozen Hermes scarves.

  

  Christina Binkley
  • Texas

• I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Trying
  • Cool
  • Rock

• I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • Important
  • Family
  • Education

• The ability of Texas Republicans to be effective in Congress is based on having at least 218 Republicans in the House.

  

  Bill Flores
  • House
  • Texas

• I don't know if there's something in the water in Texas, but there's a lot of us really ballsy women that have something to say.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Women
  • Water
  • Texas

• We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.

  

  Bonnie Jo Campbell
  • Up
  • Real
  • Father

• When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.'

  

  Amaury Nolasco
  • People
  • Chicago
  • Texas

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

  

  Jimmy Walker
  • World
  • Country
  • Home

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