Texas Oklahoma Quotes

#1. A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.

Toni Morrison

#2. The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.

Yakov Smirnoff

#3. Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew him. I worked with him on a low budget film years ago, and we'd sit around at night while waiting for a shot.

Bill Paxton

#4. I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.

Dean Smith

#5. I have asked myself if the best which can be done with virtue is to shut it within high walls as though it were some savage creature. If the good will lock themselves up, and if the wicked will still wander free, then alas for the world! Alleyne

Arthur Conan Doyle

#6. Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

Annie Lennox

#7. I've wanted you since Texas...

Cat Johnson

#8. It's a road movie [Valentine]. I mean, yes. We film it here and it takes place from basically Colorado to Louisiana. That's the road trip. So we're all over the place. We go through bits of Texas and bits of Oklahoma.

Todd Farmer

#9. When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.

Paulo Coelho

#10. I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

Ronnie Dunn

#11. I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.

Adam McKay

#12. Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas. In 2012, North Dakota produced more than 245 million barrels of oil and provided nearly 11 percent of all U.S. output.

John Hoeven

#13. Coaching at Texas and playing at the University of Oklahoma, I had the opportunity to see a lot of guys in Texas - Texas lettermen - who I played against.

Darrell Royal

#14. I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else.

Rick Perry

#15. I wanted to choose words that even you
would have to be changed by
Take the word
of my pulse, loving and ordinary
Send out your signals, hoist
your dark scribbled flags
but take
my hand

Adrienne Rich

#16. We have so many kids in America to be adopted, but it's expensive. All these families that want children aren't able to because of the financial aspect, and that, to me, is just the most disgusting thing ever.

Cindy Margolis

#17. Since 1990, Oklahoma has executed more convicts on a per capita basis than any other state. No place, not even Texas, comes close.

John Grisham

#18. Katz traces the courageous role of Black women in settling the West (and] deftly shows how these pioneering spirits helped stabilize early communities in Texas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.

Herb Boyd

#19. I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

Gary Busey

#20. Manners count. Be polite and seek out the common ground, not just the high ground.

Allan Dare Pearce

#21. I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.

Haley Reinhart

#22. I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

Ronnie Dunn