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I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country. — Tom Hicks

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car. — Duane Chapman

Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas — Sam Houston

While the rest of the country is still talking about welfare reform, Texas is implementing it. — John Sharp

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil. — Hunter S. Thompson

At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am. — Adam Dunn

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.' — Kinky Friedman

Not anymore, ese. What ju was doing? Ju didn't go to work today, but here ju are lazy ass drinking cerveza like nothing. — Sai Marie Johnson

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults. — Molly Ivins

It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners. — Joseph Lowery

I want to fight the wussification of the State of Texas. I want to rise and shine and bring back the glory. — Kinky Friedman

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring. — Jim Evans

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

American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana. — Charles Bukowski

Speaking of banging, when's McSailor getting home?" Kirsten's smirk was the size of Texas.
Sophie had to smile. "Crude. You're crude, roomie. — Jennifer Lane

I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach. — St. Vincent

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater. — Janine Turner

I would rather have a square inch of New York than all the rest of the world. — Texas Guinan

always close by when you're in a tight squeeze.
Dn't let the sun set on a quarrel with a pard.
A good pard will at least pretend — Texas Bix Bender

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. — Roger Clemens

I'm a pageant girl from Texas, so I like makeup and hairspray. And the smoky eye? I think I was born with it! — Eva Longoria

In Texas, conservative policies win over stabbing fellow Republicans in the back. — Steve Stockman

When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.' — Ted Cruz

I'm taking you out before your ERA looks like a Texas heat wave. Let's talk after the game. — Jennifer Bernard

That guy punched me in the face for not liking what I said. I thought this was a country where you can say what you think, eh? — Sai Marie Johnson

I'm from Texas ... the bigger the hair, the closer to God! — Lilly Ghalichi

Thats what happens to Snow in Texas, lady. It freaking MELTS!! Leo Valdez- The Lost Hero — Rick Riordan

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along! — Will Rogers

Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind. — T.R. Fehrenbach

The best value translations of the Poetic Edda are by Hollander from Texas Uni Press, or by Larrington of Oxford Uni Press. — Sweyn Plowright

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

I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color. — Fairuza Balk

This is America. We're entitled to our opinions."
"Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I was stationed in Turkey, Mexico City, South America, Texas, Arizona, so I do know where the Mexican-U.S. border is. — Joe Arpaio

I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop. — Coolio

I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD. — Candace Kita

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control. — Willie Nelson

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm. — Sam Donaldson

Never spit in front of women and children, and never insult the great state of Texas. — Henry Garza

Son, not everbody thinks that life on a cattle ranch in west Texas is the second best thing to dyin and goin to heaven. — Cormac McCarthy

For a few precious moments ... I am back in Old Texas, under a high sky ... where all things are again possible ... and the wind blows free. — Larry L. King

Whatever I damn well please, and what difference does that make to you? Ivy you ready to go? — Sai Marie Johnson

Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job. — Jan Brewer

Hon, falling in love is easy. Staying in love is the tough part." ~Faith Barnett from Texas Tangle — Leah Braemel

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

I went to school in Hooks, Texas, where most people can't even read the name stitched over their own pocket. — Joe Bob Briggs

Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas. — Wendy Davis

During the cold war, West Berlin was an exclave - a tiny outpost of liberalism surrounded by people who want to crush it. It was like Austin, Texas. — Craig Ferguson

If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal. — J. R. Martinez

I think Texans have more fun than the rest of the world — Tommy Tune

Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings. — Ian Frazier

It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time. — Edna Ferber

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. — John Steinbeck

I love Texas, I can't wait in a couple of days to be home to the great state. — Ted Cruz

Big news from last night's Republican debate, you guys. It turns out George Bush was actually the smart Texas governor. — Jimmy Fallon

The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise. — Gail Collins

My Parents were murdered in Texas in 2010 and he never got caught-My G-d Hates me and the police did not care. Truth — Brenda Kay Winters

I thought you an' I'd already settled the roles in the fucker/fuckee relationship! I guess I thought wrong! — Garth Ennis

Texas is a hell hole, man. Dirt, cactus, lizards, dirt, cactus, the Bush family ... — Christopher Titus

My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. — Robert Woodrow Wilson

the Texas stars shining down like rattlesnake eyes showing in a deep, dark wood. — Joe R. Lansdale

To this day, all I know is there are between two and four openings down there and that the set up inside looks vaguely like the Texas Longhorns logo. — Tina Fey

1,000 out of the world's 6,000 languages, crammed into an area only slightly larger than that of Texas, — Jared Diamond

The trouble with Texas Baptists is that we do not hold them under water long enough. — William Cowper Brann

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease. — Calvin Trillin

Dating and getting to really know a woman is a different game. Kind of like the difference in Monopoly and Texas Hold 'Em. — Carolyn Brown

No. It was almost impossible to electrocute someone these days, unless you were the governor of Texas. — Louise Penny

There will be a whole new spirit blowing through Texas. There will be a smile on everybody's face and a chill up the spine of every politician. — Kinky Friedman

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

I've never seen 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre', I've never seen 'Halloween', I've never seen any of the 'Friday the 13ths.' — Lin Shaye

I want to be governor [of Texas] because I need the closet space. — Kinky Friedman

I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington. — Kay Bailey Hutchison

Texas. A ring of boys drew closer around the younger one they had been pushing and shoving. — Sara Orwig

I feel very at home in L.A., I think, because it's dry, and there's sun, like the West Texas I grew up in. — Stephen Graham Jones

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision! — Sam Houston

The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt. — Texas Bix Bender

A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much. — Anne Lamott

Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team. — Bum Phillips

There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world. — Ray Thompson

I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat. — Erin Wasson

Spanish territory in Florida and Texas - the — Henry Kissinger

The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent. — Dorothy Malone

I would rather live short and right then long and wrong. — John Paul Warren

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. — Patrick Swayze

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing' — Ross Perot

Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle. — Douglas Brinkley

I am about the people of the United States of America and the people of Houston, Texas. — Sheila Jackson Lee

Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate. — Jeb Bush

The next thing I knew, I had a young girl from Texas on my lap. I won't go into details of how I met her. Anyway, there it was. She was 23. I was 36. — Charles Bukowski

A man who listened? Had she found the eighth wonder of the world? — Carolyn Brown

Alexas the blessed ... was a good kid." Durzo laughed. Then his smile faded. "Broke my heart to kill him. But he needed killing by the end. — Brent Weeks

My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects. — Bella Thorne

When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas. — J. Frank Dobie

No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that's in the right and keeps on a-comin'. — Captain Bill McDonald Texas Ranger

In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back. — Ron White

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

When in darkness ... strike a match — John Paul Warren

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

Am not at all sure how we should tackle such a crisis, but on the basis of what we know so far, I would suggest, as a start, quarantining Texas. I — Bill Bryson

We're on the moon," Sadie murmured. "El Paso, Texas," Bast corrected. — Rick Riordan