Top 1200 Austin Texas Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Austin's a great wrestling town. There's a lot of WWE fans when we get there, and they're always really loud.

When you see me on TV as Stone Cold Steve Austin, that's definitely a part of my personality.

Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

Of all the places I've ever been, Austin is the only place that has felt like home. I fit in here.

You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.

The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.

The Texas Republican Party is in many respects like the national party. We have different components that all add value in different ways, whether it's the Tea Party on fiscal questions, whether it's the so-called establishment that's focused on economic development questions, moving states like Texas forward.

I can say confidently that I don't think Austin Corbett is going to play tackle in the NFL.

Any '90s baby, The Rock or Stone Cold Steve Austin had to be your favorite wrestler.

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

23andMe set out to try and change healthcare - this is not an easy business. This is not a coffee shop in Austin.

Texans for Public Justice, an anti-corruption group based in Texas applauded the indictment. No jury can undo the outcome of Texas 2002 elections, ... but the justice system must punish those who criminally conspire to undermine democracy no matter how powerful they may be. If we are to be a democracy, then powerful politicians cannot flout such laws with impunity.

This is called "spiritual lifting." It's not heavy lifting. The governor of Texas should not be confused with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's a powerful position. The governor of Texas can't do any heavy lifting really. It's not that powerful a position.

I used to drive myself about in an old Austin van... and then have to sleep in the back because I couldn't afford a hotel.

Austin is home in a lot of ways. Both my kids were born here, and my wife's side of the family lives here.

I grew up in a Texas where people would say, 'I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left me.' Now, the reverse is happening. People are leaving the Republican Party because the Republican Party is going too far to the right in Texas. And that's a source of great potential support for Democrats.

At first, I felt bad judging an entire state by one county political official, but then I found out Morrison had also helped screen public school textbooks, a topic which is another chapter in my book. The Alamo is managed by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, a group whose members can claim a relative who was living in Texas during the revolution. The fight over mismanagement of the Alamo has been going on for years.

I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.

I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.

I've never struggled with that at all....in the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, you're involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the state of Texas, and that is, you will be executed.

To this day, people ask me where is Austin Powers 4? I don't have that answer, it so hard to come up with a story that deserves an encore like that.

It's not an exaggeration to say that Texas gets a lot more out of being part of the United States than the United States gets out of having Texas as one of the states.

I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.

We opened the first Men's Wearhouse in Houston in August 1973, then a store a year for 10 years in Texas. In the early 1980s I opened a store in the San Francisco Bay Area. Within the year, the Texas economy was in total disarray. We were facing Chapter 11, and if not for the California store, we might not have survived.

It is a great day for the great state of Texas. The last person being tested for Ebola has come back clean. So Texas is now Ebola free. This was a big week for them. They're now free of Ebola - and Democrats.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

I've got a lot of wonderfully talented, creative directors I've worked with in Texas, but the market we're in, they kind of have to write to that. I think we've done some cool, simple spots. I was very comfortable in Texas, and getting ready to push out into national stuff, try to get to that national-type creative, and then I got sidetracked with this stuff.

The Tea Party definitely scored a significant victory with Senator Cruz's election in 2012 and scored victories in some statewide primaries. But to me, as the Tea Party gets stronger within the Republican Party in Texas, the prospect of a blue Texas becomes stronger and stronger.

In 2013, I did a TEDx talk in Austin. Until then I had sort of a following online but this was completely different - it went viral.

I'm often asked why there is such a great variation among sentences imposed by Texas judges. I can only quote the Texas judge who was asked why a killer sometimes doesn't even get indicted and a cattle thief can get ten years. The judge answered: "A lot of fellows ought to be shot, but we don't have any cows that need stealin".

My biggest moment was me beating Stone Cold Steve Austin to win the championship.

Austin Aries, A.J. Styles, and Samoa Joe are all super talented, and all three of them have earned everything they've gotten.

When we got with Dallas Austin, he was just getting on. He was kinda like the fourth member of TLC.

Nobody, especially Vince McMahon, tells Stone Cold Steve Austin what to do, and that's the bottom line!

Eveybody likes to speculate that me and Austin Starr are somehow related. I always say that that guy never had a tattoo.

That boy-next-door, love interest crush has been my niche since 'Austin & Ally.'

I remember, when I saw the first 'Austin Powers' movie, I was blown away by how fun and original it was.

Making sure every child can read, making sure that we encourage faith-based organizations ... when it comes to helping neighbors in need, making sure that our neighborhoods are safe, making sure that the state of Texas recognizes that people from all walks of life have got a shot at the Texas dream but, most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.

I grew up lower-middle class outside of Austin, I'm a white guy, and I write movies.

Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.

I've had the same car for five years - it's a convertible Jag which I bought with my own money. It's very Austin Powers.

I was in Austin on 9/11, and there were no flights, so I couldn't get to New York to cover the story, so I had to find more creative ways.

Dallas Austin... where do I begin? I adore him - he is one of the kindest people I know.

I played with a band in Austin when I was doing 'Friday Night Lights.' It was a blast.

I spent a summer in Texas when I was eight, in Fredericksburg, which is, like, real Texas. It's, like, cowboys and stuff. That was my first time in the States, and I was eight years old. It was also the first time I tasted Dr. Pepper, which blew my mind.

Austin is such a free and creative place, but I can't enjoy it as much because everyone I love is back in L.A.

I assaulted Stone Cold Steve Austin and got away with it! It was indeed a very special night for me.

I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in Texas heard about it at the state prison and got to writing me letters asking me to come down there. So I responded and then the warden called me and asked if I would come down and do a show for the prisoners in Texas.

I don't want to be nostalgic for some kind of laid-back Austin where nothing was happening.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

I wrote 'Millie's Cafe' driving out of Ft. Worth, Texas one time. I was in a dust storm in my old bus. Beer inside. It was like a sailboat, you know...we couldn't see anything. Some things about Texas are so different than Ontario. I was just thinking about how different it is from where I live and, you know, whatever happens to inspire a song happened.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

I know people look at the Disney Channel as... a specific thing. But all the actors from 'Austin and Ally' - honestly, they're really good.

Austin is great but it's just not home for us. L.A. is definitely where we want to be.

You have more issues than National Geographic by Austin LeFleur in Hissy Fit

For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.

Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?

When I left Nashville I went to Texas because that's where I came from, and because I was playing in Texas a lot in different places. And I saw hippies and rednecks drinking beer together and smoking dope together and having a good time together and I knew it was possible to get all groups of people together - long hair, short hair, no hair - and music would bring them together.