Guinan's Quotes

#1. A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan

#2. Always be true to yourself and follow your dreams!

LaDonna M. Cook

#3. Success has killed more men than bullets.

Texas Guinan

#4. I came from the last couple of years in a generation where we didn't have a computer around so we didn't waste as much time on the internet as we do now so I had large chuncks of time which to devote to doing something.

John Mayer

#5. Feuds are forgiven, if not forgotten, in the hour of death

("The Watcher O' The Dead")

John Guinan

#6. every man has his own story, his own agony

("The Watcher O' The Dead")

John Guinan

#7. I would rather have a square inch of New York than all the rest of the world.

Texas Guinan

#8. Better a square foot of New York than all the rest of the world in a lump - better a lamppost on Broadway than the brightest star in the sky.

Texas Guinan

#9. He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave.

Texas Guinan

#10. You are brave ...
Now go ... do epic!
That's an order.
Do it.
Please.

Kim Holden

#11. What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound.

Dewey Redman

#12. I'm not a fan of reality shows, but I am a fan of people who use their brains and skills and hard work to outsmart people, not to steal someone's man or get drunk on TV.

Sandra Bullock

#13. A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards.

Texas Guinan

#14. Think BIG! You are going to be thinking anyway, so think BIG!

Donald J. Trump

#15. I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

Grace Paley

#16. There is no man but carries in his breast the makings of a story, which, though never told, comes more home to him, than any the mind of another man can find and fashion in words

("The Watcher O' The Dead")

John Guinan

#17. Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.

Texas Guinan

#18. Does a special love withstand the test of time? Like the grass that overcomes a 500lb slab of sidewalk concrete or the proverbial flower that shatters the stone, can Christ overcome the barriers and deep darkness of mortal moments?

Rob Guinan

#19. Absurdism was really just realism seen from close to the bottom.

George Saunders