#texas

Was ist das höchste, dass du je beim Münze-werfen verloren hast? ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#schießerei #spannung #texas #tod #men

In keeping with the Laws of the Prophet Bubba and the Code of the UIL, as set forth in the Book of First Downs, as the sun sets on Friday nights the rites of the Texas state religion are celebrated: high school, smash-mouth football. ‘And lo, the children of Jim Bob do take to the roads in caravans and they do go up unto the stadium by tribes, the Indians of Groveton, the Panthers of Lufkin, the Mustangs of Overton, and the very Wildcats of Palestine, and who shall withstand the traffic jams thereof?’ Thus is it written, and so it is and shall be. ↗

— Markham Shaw Pyle

#east-texas #football #piney-woods #texas #religion

Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#battle #cbs #chance #clear #dan

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#love #old-fashioned #texas #western #would

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#august #being #coat #comes #damn

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true. ↗

— Krista Allen

#clear #few #former #i #kindergarten

I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#desperately #guy #had #high #high school

The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#buildings #consumption #costs #efficiency #efficient

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty. ↗

— Jimmy Dean

#back #damned #eighty #entire #ever

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#bright #city #city people #common #common sense