Fort Worth Texas Sayings

#1. T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.

Betty Buckley

#2. Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Neither should hardiness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be valiant as men despising death, but confident as unwonted to be overcome.

Philip Sidney

#3. When I came out of high school, my objective in life was to get a job selling used cars, but after trying for two weeks, nobody would hire me.

Jim Pattison

#4. How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#5. I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We're seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level.

Bill Paxton

#6. Spacemen die if they stay in one place.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. There's no Texas barbecue as good as Fort Worth barbecue,

Stephen King

#8. Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas.

Dan Jenkins

#9. Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.

Thomas Hoving