T Quotes
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“Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.”
Source: Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?
“Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind.”
“Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.”
“Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.”
“Texas is reportedly going to give college students the right to carry guns on campus. So I guess that next semester, every college student in Texas is getting straight A's.”
“Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams”
Source: In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas : with a New Preface
“Texas is the crossroads of the world. Everything here is big.”
“Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!”
Source: The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1824-1854
“Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases.”
“Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.”
Source: Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans
“Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.”
“Texas Red is about the biggest blues hellraiser you'll ever meet.”
“Texas representative Louie Gohmert declared in a December 2017 floor speech, 'The Supreme Court looked at all of the evidence and declared in an opinion that the United States was founded as, and is, a Christian nation.' He added to this gross misstatement by insisting that 'the only way any people can truly have freedom of religion is if they have a constitution that is founded on Judeo-Christian principles.' The opposite is true.”
Source: The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
“Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.”
“Texas senator and tea party favorite Ted Cruz announced he's running for president. He pledged to lead America boldly forward into the 1950s.”
“Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced he is running for president. Ted Cruz was born in Canada, his father fled to the United States from Cuba, and yet Ted Cruz is against immigration. Isn't that odd?”
“Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.”
“Texas: state-sized porkchop of misery.”
Source: The Passage
“Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.”
Source: Anchorwoman
“Texas…was evidently the only place in the known universe, including Louisiana, that actually got hotter after the sun went down.”
Source: The Dime
“Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.”
“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.”
Source: The writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863
“Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.”
“Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.”
“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.”
“Texas: 32 electoral votes, another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a huge taco.”
“Text a guy you like right now, "I'm thinking about you." If he says, "mmm are you in bed?" Never speak to him again he's a lifelong moron.”
“Text first, rhythm second, melody third.”
“Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.”
“Text is like a musical score. It is true that Anna Karenina commits suicide in the same sense that is true that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is in C minor (and not in F major, like the Sixth) and begins with G,G,G,E-flat.”
Source: On Literature
“Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms of immediate reaction it is quite boring. I can't imagine a single preliterate was ever wowed at the first sight of text, and yet text has been the basis of arguably the most fundamental intellectual transformation of the human species. It and its subforms, such as algebra, have made science education for all a plausible goal.”
“Text is the gateway drug to real time marketing.”
“Text is, in some ways, on the way out, unfortunately. There are dating sites now that are just pictures.”
“text message - what are you doing ! now ?
Getting dressed !
Why?....
*Well *, if I walk outside naked,.. people will throw garbage at me”
“Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language.”
“Text play greater role in transforming its readers”
“Text talk? How can the art of writing, once performed by monastic scribes, have degenerated into little more than creative candyfloss?”
Source: A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3
“Text without context is pretext.”
“Textbook intelligence is not true intelligence. It only marks a man good at memorization.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!"”
“Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.”
“Textbooks are like visible light, they only reveal a tiny, microscopic, biased sliver of reality, while 99.9965% of the electromagnetic spectrum remain nonexistent to the mighty brains of apekind. Real education happens outside the textbook.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.”
“Textbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important.”
“Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is irreversible. But today I want to present it as something different again, and even more intriguing. The DNA in you is a coded description of ancient worlds in which your ancestors lived. DNA is the wisdom out of the old days, and I mean very old days indeed.”
“Textbooks don't teach people how to avoid paying any income tax. But that's what an army of tax lawyers and corporate tax accountants do.”
“Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline.”
“Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.”
Source: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
“Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but the trouble they inflict on the minds of students is a blight and a curse.”
Source: The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
“Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift.”