Quotes on the topic: Texas


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We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!


During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.


In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive.


I'm from Texas. You would think my biggest draw would be in that state. But my biggest draw is Pennsylvania.


My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.


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.


The Republic of Texas is no more.


I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public.


When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.'


When Texans suffered from the collapse of the oil market in the 1980s, they could rely on the fiscal union to help them. When Texas boomed with rising oil prices in the 2000s, it contributed to the union to help harder hit regions.


I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.


We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised.


'Welcome To New York' is one of those songs that, with just one single radio play, will make at least 10 New Yorkers move to Marfa, Texas.


The states that have large in-migrations of Hispanics are Florida, Texas and California. And Florida and Texas are way above average in educational achievement, while California's the lowest, just about.


I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.


A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.


Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.


At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.


I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.


When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me, and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day.