Connally's Quotes

#1. John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties.

Frank Mankiewicz

#2. When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.

John Connally

#3. The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s. When Steve was two they adopted a girl they named Patty, and three years later they moved to a tract house in the suburbs.

Walter Isaacson

#4. You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do ... I honestly do ... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy.

Aaliyah

#5. The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.

Val McDermid

#6. Pen and paper are my life now because in their presence i don't need any person to share my feelings as earthlings haven't any more purity in their behaviors.

M.H. Rakib

#7. He mulled that over. "Sheriff Connally woulda let us shoot 'em."
I reached over and took his coffee away from him. "Yep. Lucian probably would have done the job himself, but we're living in more enlightened times." I drained his cup and handed it back with a smile. "Ain't it grand?

Craig Johnson

#8. A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

John Connally

#9. Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.

Doug Flutie

#10. It's the space between them where everything important is, where it appears nothing resides. It defines the people, the music.

Joey W. Hill

#11. Everyone has an idea over time of what the business should be, and during the formative period, too many opinions could be disruptive.

Nick Woodman

#12. I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

Brian Eno

#13. When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.

Gerard Butler

#14. I must say, to be very honest about it, that I held in my mind during the life of the Commission, that there had been three shots and that a separate shot struck Governor Connally.

John Sherman Cooper

#15. I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

Kobe Bryant

#16. You have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove.

Stieg Larsson

#17. Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.

Merrie Spaeth

#18. Everyday I transfer some of my positivity to you..in form of prayers..Hope they work someday!

Ila Garg

#19. In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.

John Connally

#20. Every society seeks to confine me to the august limits of the permitted and the prohibited. But I do not acknowledge these limits, for nothing is forbidden and all is permitted to those who have the force, and the valor.

Renzo Novatore

#21. If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.

Phil Crane

#22. There's a new dawn in America! It isn't enough just to disagree with your opponent anymore. True patriots hate their fucking guts!

Tim Dorsey