#texas

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them. ↗

— Ike Turner

#artists #come #different #down #find

You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas. ↗

— Janine Turner

#out #take #texas #ultimately #you

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

#california #done #federal #federal government #good

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

#consenting adults #consider #dearly #discuss #harmless

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#ever #finest #form #free #good

Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#because #country #ever #freedom #fun

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#funnier #i #never #politics #saw

I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat. ↗

— Alexander Skarsgard

#boots #cowboy #cowboy hat #culture #embraced

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#army #ball games #banners #despair #field

I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#anything #child #doing #films #friends