Texas Quotes · Page 14

The CHIPS Act is proof that when we work together we can do big things for Texas and our nation.

— Colin Allred

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

— Jacqueline Kelly

I made it from Paris, Texas, to Paris on the Strip. Who else can say that?

— Shangela

Im from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

— Jay R. Ferguson

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do…

— Edna Ferber

I write about Texas, New York, California and Virginia, and they're all important places in my repertoire.

— Sissy Spacek

How to treat a woman right. Something you learn when you're from Texas.

— Anonymous

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

— Hunter S. Thompson

This no longer a state of mind it's a reality, this is the beginning of an opportunity that hasn't presented itself in…

— Florence Shapiro

My degrees are in physics and space physics, and I did well enough in university that I actually started working at the…

— Shannon Walker

I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software…

— Shane Carruth

Escape plan #5: Open an alpaca ranch in Texas, one that requires all blond-haired, brown-eyed, brainy girls to wear sexy cowgirl outfits.

— Richelle Mead

I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If…

— William H. Seward

Cruz named Former Texas Senator Phil Gramm as his economic guru. This guy virtually crashed the U.S. economy. Gramm is largely responsible…

— Roger Stone

The first event I vividly remember was competing at the Junior Olympics in Seattle, Washington. It was my first major competition outside…

— Michelle Carter

I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of…

— Ronnie Dunn

Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people…

— Gail Collins

Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at…

— John Cusack

For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, what you…

— James A. Michener

When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me,…

— Ted Cruz

In Texas, you just learn just be nice to people and respect them, and respect where they're coming from. And understand people…

— Jordan Spieth

I drove through the stockyards of Texas on a motorcycle. It doesn't let you escape what surrounds you and what it smells…

— James Cromwell

I'm in love with language again because Luke B. Goebel is not afraid to take us back through the gullet of loss…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I get letters every week from people who live in rural Texas or rural Mississippi and who feel totally alone. They feel…

— John Shelby Spong

My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.

— Evan Sayet

The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important… This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.

— Kinky Friedman

When I go home to Texas and get recognized a lot, that can be weird.

— Maddie Marlow

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'

— George W. Bush

'Paris, Texas' gave me a chance to play compassion, and I'm spelling that with a capital C.

— Harry Dean Stanton

I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip…

— Coolio

I want to be the best quarterback at Texas Tech, the best quarterback in the Big 12.

— Davis Webb

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.

— Robin Wright

Texas has a uniquely warm climate. So fabric weights and lengths of coats are always a concern.

— Nick Wooster

Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.

— Mark McKinnon

Like "soon as I land in Texas, I'mma text you later Don't take this out of context, but your ex a hater.

— Swagga Boy Los

Texas: 32 electoral votes, another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a huge taco.

— Dan Rather

Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.

— Anonymous

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.

— Malcolm McDowell

here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

— Edna Ferber

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

— John Hawkes