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Lisa Kleypas "Jewelry, in a box this big?' I unfastened the silver latches. 'This is Texas,' Kimmie said reasonably."
Bobby Knight "During my 40-year career at West Point, Indiana, Texas Tech, my teams reach the final four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times."
Thomas W. Knowles "In the person of Quanah Parker, an extraordinary man in whom the blood of two strong peoples flowed, the Lone Star and the Comanche Moon at last found common ground."
Paul Krugman "These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas. Wait—Texas? Wasn't Texas supposed to be thriving even as the rest of America suffered? Didn't its governor declare, during his re-election campaign, that 'we have billions in surplus'? Yes, it was, and yes, he did. But reality has now intruded, in the form of a deficit expected to run as high as $25 billion over the next two years. And that reality has implications for the nation as a whole. For Texas is where the modern conservative theory of budgeting—the belief that you should never raise taxes under any circumstances, that you can always balance the budget by cutting wasteful spending—has been implemented most completely. If the theory can't make it there, it can't make it anywhere."
Richard Land "The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?"
Tom Landry "Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest."
Tom Landry, Dallas Cowboys "When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn."
Mary Lasswell, Author "I am forced to conclude that God made Texas on his day off, for pure entertainment, just to prove that all that diversity could be crammed into one section of earth by a really top hand."
Fran Lebowitz "Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq."
Bobby Lee "Texas is the crossroads of the world. Everything here is big!"
Bob Lilly, Dallas Cowboys Tackle "The warmth of the friendly Texas people is a big reason why I always look forward to coming back home from an out-of-state trip. Texas has a multitude of small towns and communities with wonderful folks, just like Throckmorton, where I grew up. On Friday nights during football season, practically the entire town fills the bleachers at the high school stadium to cheer the home team on to victory. In fact, the enthusiasm of those Texas townspeople helped propel me into my career as a defensive tackle with the Dallas Cowboys for 14 years. My favorite pastimes now include fishing on the coast, and photographing wildflowers and courthouses."
Abraham Lincoln "I perhaps all to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come out of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free Republican people on our own model."
David Lindsey, mystery-writer "Whenever I travel away from home for any length of time, one of the first things I want to do when I return to Texas is to dig into a plate of Mexican food. My earliest memories of Mexican food date to my childhood, when I lived in Starr County, near Rio Grande City, on the border. I fondly remember the braceros who squatted under the lacy shade of mesquite trees at noon every day and kindly indulged the curiosity of a small boy who regularly sought their company. They shared their simple tortillas and beans and hot coffee (that's right, even in the heat of summer) with me, and I ate happily as I listened to them talk in a language whose words I did not yet know, but whose cadences and grace I instinctively understood. I thought I was eating the best food in the world."
Richard Linklater "Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone."
Lyle Lovett, [Texas A&M class of 1979] "My favorite Aggie joke? I'm sorry I don't understand the question!"