Tennessee Quotes · Page 9

On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.

— John Jay Hooker

My education commitment is simple. I believe that every child is unique. Im going to work as hard as I know how,…

— Phil Bredesen

I love Tennessee Williams pieces; they are so poetic and I love period pieces.

— Richard Hatch

I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.

— Denzel Washington

My elementary school is still there [in Luttrell, Tennessee]. I drop by my high school. It's a small community. I say this…

— Kenny Chesney

A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and…

— Katy Mixon

I want to do a Tennessee Williams play.

— Cobie Smulders

Around the time I opened my second restaurant, Etta's, I had just finished judging at the Jack Daniels World Invitational BBQ Championship…

— Tom Douglas

I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony…

— Sebastian Stan

The state of Tennessee is where I started off my MMA career.

— Ovince Saint Preux

Pabst Blue Ribbon. I'm from Johnson City, Tennessee. I gotta go Pabst.

— Matt Czuchry

You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

— John Guare

There are so many different versions of "Tennessee Waltz" and they're all so good.

— Valerie June

Tennessee Williams moves my soul.

— Zawe Ashton

I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.

— John Guare

Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama,…

— John Lahr

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be,…

— H. L. Mencken

There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind…

— H. L. Mencken

I had a degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where they said, 'Mr. Jordan, please learn to pronounce your degree.'…

— Leslie Jordan

Both teams are making mistakes. Florida's making these itsy-bitsy little ones, and Tennessee is making huge, gigantic mistakes.

— Gary Danielson

Tennessee has a strong history of conservative stewardship of taxpayer dollars.

— Bill Hagerty

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself…

— James Agee

All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough…

— Martin Luther King, Jr