North america Quote by Belle de Jour

“Our first real chance at peaceful sleep, at safety, lay out in west Texas, and”

— Bobby Adair

“The American Dream isn’t dead, but it seems to have developed a Texas accent.”

— Mark Davis

There`s a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found…

— Rachel Griffiths

“Texas is undeniable...We were already almost out of America and yet definitely in it and in the middle of where it's maddest.”

— Jack Kerouac

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

— James Purefoy

“Think of anything, of cowboys, of movies, of detective stories, of anybody who goes anywhere or stays at home and is an American and…

— Gertrude Stein

There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons,…

— Ann Richards

I've got a lot of wonderfully talented, creative directors I've worked with in Texas, but the market we're in, they kind of have to…

— Jackie Earle Haley

A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

— John Steinbeck

I began to understand that all Texas is an eternal synthesis of past and present, superimposed one upon the other. It produces a feeling…

— Mary Lasswell

I'm South American, and growing up in New York, I had the total stereotypical way of thinking of what Texas was about. I'm like,…

— Paula Garces

Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship…

— Sam Houston