Austin famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
-- Al Yankovic -
I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.
-- Amber Heard -
If you ask, what is the first step in the way of truth? I answer humility," saith St. Austin. "If you ask, what is the second? I say humility. If you ask, what is the third? I answer the same - humility.
-- Antony C. Sutton -
Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.
-- Charles de Lint -
Austin and I proceeded to knock back a couple of Ketel One and grapefruit juices, which happened to be my drink of the moment. Someone told me that grapefruit was a great detoxifier and I decided I wanted to start cleaning out my liver WHILE I was having a cocktail.
-- Chelsea Handler -
There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
-- Gary Clark, Jr. -
The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.
-- Jay Roach -
In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.
-- John Cale -
I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
-- Keith Richards -
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.
-- Kyle Chandler -
You have more issues than National Geographic by Austin LeFleur in Hissy Fit
-- Mary Kay Andrews -
People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.
-- Robert Rodriguez -
Austin 3:16 says I just whipped your @$$!
-- Stone Cold Steve Austin -
You can talk about your Psalms and your John 3:16. Well, Austin 3:16 says I just whooped your *ss.
-- Stone Cold Steve Austin -
Does anybody have, a cold beer for Steve Austin?!??!!?
-- Stone Cold Steve Austin -
I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.
-- Uma Thurman -
Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
-- Verne Troyer -
It was me, Austin. It was me all along, Austin!
-- Vince McMahon -
There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.
-- Willie Nelson -
Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.
-- Corey Smith -
I love Austin. It's great here. I don't mind the heat.
-- Elizabeth Crook -
I love the writers in Austin. We stick together. We all like each other and go to each other's book signings in case no one else shows up.
-- Elizabeth Crook -
I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.
-- Jay Duplass -
After each performance of an Austin Shakespeare production, audiences are invited to stay for a ten-minute discussion of the work. And this tradition continues in our New York run.
-- Jeff Britting -
I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her classicism.
-- Whit Stillman -
I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.
-- Mark Zupan -
I would like to undermine the stereotype of "strict philosophy." J.L. Austin remarked that, when philosophy is done well, it's all over by the bottom of the first page. I take him to have meant that the real work comes in setting up the problem with which you are dealing, and thus getting your reader to take particular things for granted.
-- Philip Kitcher