Texas

If you want to see Atlanta, go to Dallas—if you want to see Texas, come to Fort Worth. –Dan Jenkins

It’s a relatively young place and nobody here inherited any money. It’s in their blood to gamble, whether it’s guessing where an oil well is or planting cotton or playing golf. In Texas, it’s not a question of gambling, it’s a question of what time are we gambling. –Jack Burke, Jr.

One riot, one Ranger. –motto of the Texas Rangers.

I am aboard a cruise ship gliding slowly between snow-capped mountains that remind me of the art my parents hung on our living room wall back in Minnesota in the Fifties. It was a large translucent picture of snow-capped mountains, lit by an electric bulb behind it, and when guests came we made sure to turn it on. We were all quite proud of it, and I guess it was considered inspirational, in the sense of "How can you look at this and say there is no God?" It occupied a place of prominence over the couch. Of course, to base one's faith on beautiful scenery is to leave oneself open to grave doubt if you should see Texas. Texas would make any man an atheist, unless he understood that God means to challenge us. –Garrison Keillor

To buy a doll for a boy from Texas you might as well just send him to New York and be done with it. –Jay Johnson

[women’s fashion in Texas] If you can walk in your shoes, the heel is not high enough. –Patricia Marx