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David Nevin, author "This is a place where all things are possible, where the man with a dream, if he works hard enough and dreams well enough, can make it come true....It is not the oil or the money or the buildings or the growth that makes Texas exciting. It is the attitude."
Mark O'Connell "I'd begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across Texas in a great mobile metaphor for the inevitable decline of all things, the disintegration of all systems over time."
Robin Wright Penn "Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me."
Piper Perabo "In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky."
Ross Perot "In plain Texas talk, it's 'Do the right thing.'"
Rick Perry "Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator."
Richard Petty, race car driver ''No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning."
'Bum' Phillips, Former Houston Oilers coach "I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again."
Susan Elizabeth Phillips "This is America. We're entitled to our opinions. Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts."
Jerome Pohlen, author, Oddball Texas "Each year El Paso gets more sunny days - over 300 - than any other U.S. city."
Cherie Priest "She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way; but west Texas had given her something more concrete upon which to dread the afterlife."
Annie Proulx "No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ... it was real muggy earlier, hot enough to cook a bear. Anyway, you get used a rapid weather change."
Dan Rather "Austin is home to me, although I wasn't born there. I remember being brought there by my parents, back in the late 1930s. We rode all day, with my brother and sister in the back of the 1936 Ford, and then, just as the sun was going down, we cleared a hilltop. And there was Austin. Purple and grey in the setting sun. Lights sparkling. The Capitol in the foreground, the Tower of the University of Texas just beyond it. Then, as now, the Capitol was a dusky pink, the Tower illuminated a pale gold. It was like seeing all of Texas at once."
Clay Reynolds, novelist "Most people who are real Texans by birth or at least by attitude know that a 'Mexican breakfast' consists of a cup of black coffee and a cigarette.
Ann Richards, Former Governor " I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of it's size until I campaigned it."
Ann Richards, Former Governor of Texas "I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of it's size until I campaigned it"
Keith Richards "I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?"
Ann Richards "There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality."
John C. B. Richmond, Author "Texas is still a last frontier. It is the part of the United States where the traditional virtues are still operating. In short, a piece of living history."
Darrell Royal "I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again."
Darrell Royal "For me, it is just the total experience from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years."