#louisiana

My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#because #being #canadian #food #french

As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast is a very special place, and the federal government has underinvested in it year after year after year, whether it's education or health care. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#care #city #coast #education #extraordinary

The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can’t live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin’ wide in the turns. ↗

— Daniel Woodrell

#grim #hard-boiled #hard-life #hillbilly-noir #life-sucks-then-you-die

If you're gonna fret, fret over something you can change. Then stop fretting and do something about it. ↗

— Kimberly Willis Holt

#change

I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America's WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize that wetlands loss in Louisiana affects us all. ↗

— John Breaux

#am #america #beginning #campaigns #effort

I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And I believe many of the politicians in Louisiana are among the most stomach-churning examples of white trash and venality I have ever known. To me, the fact that large numbers of people find them humorously picaresque is mind numbing, on a level with telling fond tales of one's rapist. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#louisiana #politics #home

Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#louisiana #south #nature

I'm from Louisiana and live in Texas now. ↗

— Mike Wilson

#live #louisiana #now #texas

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana. ↗

— Beth Henley

#few #first #louisiana #lucky #place

But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana. ↗

— John Breaux

#been #decision #fact #feel #important