#texas

I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players. ↗

— Dimebag Darrell

#bugs #enough #get #great #guys

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

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of Texas House members just last fall. You know, we've had almost 200,000 OTMs - the government categorizes OT 'other, other than Mexicans' - along the Mexican border. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#along #bipartisan #border #crisis #declared

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together. ↗

— John Bruton

#china #european #exceeds #investment #japan

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those. ↗

— Bear Bryant

#after #beat #capable #five #game

After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#anyone #anything #being #california #end

That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#atlanta #california #competing #development #done

There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else. ↗

— Pete Hamill

#anywhere #bigger #country #diamonds #disasters

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#california #compact #mexico #mr #new

Daddy had a strict rule about firearms. Anything we killed we had to eat. No amount of barbecue sauce would make a hairy guy like you palatable. ↗

— Diane Kelly

#humorous #irs #texas #death