Texas Population Quotes

#1. I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.

Pat Gillick

#2. People actually occupy around 3 per cent of the earth's land surface. If 1,200 square feet was given to every person in the world, they would still all fit into an area the size of Texas - whether the Texans would object is an altogether different issue!

Michael Coren

#3. If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.

Romola Garai

#4. Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

Charlotte Bronte

#5. For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.

Gail Collins

#6. What they would see first would be a darkening of the sky in the east - a change from empty blue to a grey-white that would gradually shade into a heavy, inky purple. And then there would be a wind - the wind that preceded a storm and carried the smell of rain on its breath.

Alexander McCall Smith

#7. Some instruments seemed like they were held together with duct tape and prayers. Everything looked out of date.

Eoin Colfer

#8. Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

Mason Cooley

#9. It really was true that behind every great man is an even greater woman, which stood true for wolves as well.

Quinn Loftis

#10. Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help.

Albert Schweitzer

#11. When he turned and walked into the living room he knew instantly why it was that he hadn't wanted to come here, and that he ought to get out as soon as he possibly could. There, staring him in the face, was everything he'd been deprived of for the last five years.

William Maxwell

#12. You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

Mark Haddon

#13. I believe in public ownership, but I have never favoured the remote nationalised model of the postwar era.

Jeremy Corbyn

#14. Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.

James Hillman

#15. Of what use to humanity, I ask myself, is a man who cannot see beyond his own hurt?

Janisse Ray

#16. And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages? Might as well talk about prudent suicides.

G.K. Chesterton

#17. I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.

Jello Biafra

#18. I grew up on red meat and corn. But I don't eat like that anymore.

Terry Farrell