Speak Texan Quotes & Sayings

When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way. — Ravi Shankar

Our eyes meet. Am I mistaken or does the corner of her mouth tuck in ever so slightly and the petal of her lower lip curl out ever so richly? She is smiling-at me! My mind hits upon half a dozen schemes to circumvent the terrible moment of separation. No doubt she is a Texan. They are nearly always bad judges of men, these splendid Amazons. Most men are afraid of them and so they fall victim to the first little Mickey Rooney that comes along. In a better world I should be able to speak to her: come, darling, you can see that I love you. If you are planning to meet some little Mickey, think better of it. What a tragedy it is that I do not know her, will probably never see her again. What good times we could have! — Walker Percy

If you're religious or not, the world and society lacks as much of community spirit as it had. — Luke Pritchard

I walk out into the kitchen the next morning, rubbing my eyes. I stop in my tracks as I see a man standing over the stove. Naked. He has an extremely white ass and is frying something in the pan. — Chantal Fernando

Stale words, what are they worth?
A moment comes and God help those for whom it never comes.
When love of such nobility possesses this shaking frame
That even the sweetest word, the ultimate honey, stings like vinegar. — Edmond Rostand

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living. — George Washington Carver

When I work out, I feel happy, confident, and accomplished. — Nina Dobrev

Everything you can imagine is real. — Picasso Pablo

RON BRACKIN'S TEXAS GLOSSARY "Peccadello" n. roadkill. — Ron Brackin

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated. — Henry Adams

I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second books. — Tracy K. Smith

The Giraffe took the horse's head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards the railway station, and two or three chaps went along to help get the sick man into the train. — Henry Lawson

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals. — George Bernard Shaw

I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic. — Annette Bening

The need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of. — Bede Griffiths