I’ve never seen ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’, I’ve never seen ‘Halloween’, I’ve never seen any of the ‘Friday the 13ths.’ – Lin Shaye
To join Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys was like throwing a baseball around in your front yard and somebody coming over and signing you to play for the New York Yankees. – Johnny Gimble
When I was 15, I was working for a radio band in Shreveport. Cliff Bruner, the hottest Texas fiddler of them all, was on the same package shows, playing for Jimmie Davis. – Johnny Gimble
Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I’m a delicate boy from Plano, Texas. – John Benjamin Hickey
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
Even without mandatory sentences, judges are still capable of levying tough penalties for serious offenses – and just as in states like Texas that have ‘tough on crime’ reputations, this can be done without jeopardizing public safety. – Ken Cuccinelli
I will say, I’m a great, great, great grandson of Stephen F. Austin. He founded Austin, Texas, which is kind of cool. – Jesse Plemons
Reba McEntire came through town when I lived in Texas. She had this amazing theatrical show with, like, 13 different wardrobe changes. I was eight and I was like, Wow, I wanna do that! – LeAnn Rimes
And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place. – Karen Hughes
I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater. – Janine Turner
The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it’s impossible to be insane in Texas. – Malcolm McDowell
Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jews want to worship in New York, we’re living under the magnificent umbrella of a Constitution that says we can. – Marianne Williamson
I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it’s such a cult classic. I’d seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those. – Jessica Biel
My Longhorns are registered and I am a member of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association. – Janine Turner
To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown. – Molly Ivins
If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas. – John Podesta
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
Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I’ve always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers. – Kacey Musgraves
I’m from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South. – Jay R. Ferguson
You won’t see me taking it easy on the Cowboys because I’m from Texas, you won’t see me cheering for the Cowboys because I’m from Texas. I’ll be a Redskin, through and through. – Robert Griffin III
How many people are moving up toward the Antarctica, or the Arctic? Most people move down to Texas and Florida, where it’s a little bit warmer. – Ron Johnson
Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican. – Sam Houston
Texas has long been known as the nation’s largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation’s leading energy innovator. – Rick Perry
Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But when they brought all these cattle onto these relatively small bits of land, and the cattle were allowed to graze freely, they essentially destroyed the prairie. – Philipp Meyer
Texas will again lift it’s head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages. – Sam Houston
I don’t want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don’t want to look like Oklahoma, I don’t want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that’s not to diss anybody else. – Rick Perry
