Houston Quotes

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Simon Hoggart

Jobs, New York, Stars

Simon Hoggart (1990). “America: A User's Guide”, HarperCollins

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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Neil Armstrong

Eagles, Quiet, Tranquility

In 'New York Times' 31 July 1969, p. 20

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Houston, we've had a problem here.

Jim Lovell

Problem

Transmission on Apollo 13 mission to the moon, 13 Apr. 1970.

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Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston. I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'

Dolly Parton

Song, Love You, Grateful

FaceBook post by Dolly Parton from Feb 12, 2012

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If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of the New York Yankees or the Houston Oilers, or what label "Hang On Sloopy" by The McCoys was on, you are capable of remembering the differences between a gerund (verb form used as a noun) and a participle (verb form used as an adjective).

Stephen King

New York, Writing, Yankees

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it.

Shelley Duvall

Gun, Ems, Use

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And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers.

Nolan Ryan

Sports, Names, Organization

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I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.

LaToya London

Singing, Firsts, Grew Up

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When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

Leif Garrett

Zero, Kids, Pluto

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Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.

David Neeleman

People, Wife, Flying

"ON THE RECORD: DAVID NEELEMAN / Jetblue Airways". SFGate Interview, www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2004.

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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!

Wally Schirra

Real, Fierce, Problem

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One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

Ted Danson

Kissing, Phones, Actors

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And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.

Umberto Guidoni

Years, Class, Two

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Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.

Jim Lovell

Apollo, Problem, Bus

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My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

Dante Hall

Team, Eye, College

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When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

George Foreman

Kids, Letters, Lasts

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I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.

Jeffrey Hunter

Doubt, Television, Next

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I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly.

Dan Rather

Funny, Drug, Understanding

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Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros.

Nolan Ryan

Moss, Agents, Contracts

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And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.

Wilt Chamberlain

Basketball, Dad, Couple

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I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

Robert Smith

Sky, Listening, Whitney

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If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

Danny Glover

Country, Men, Toxic

Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.

Beyonce Knowles

Nice, School, House

"New Again: Destiny’s Child". Interview with Suzanne Hodges, Lorraine Bracco, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2013.

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They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

Mike Schmidt

Sports, Roots, Giving

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Houston, we have a problem.

Tom Hanks

Problem

"Fictional character: Jim Lovell". "Apollo 13", 1995.

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