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1. "Who lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston seeking jazz or sex or soup, and followed the brilliant Spaniard to converse about America and Eternity, a hopeless task, and so took ship to Africa"
Author: Allen Ginsberg
2. "Message reads: 'Houston, be advised: Rich Purnell is a steely-eyed missile man."
Author: Andy Weir
3. "Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up."
Author: Ariana Grande
4. "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."
Author: Beyonce Knowles
5. "I love Dallas, Austin and Houston. Why? Because some of the best comedians, like Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison, started their careers in Texas, and because the crowds there are comedy-educated."
Author: Bobby Lee
6. "Dear J: I feel lucky that I didn't fuck you the first time we met in Houston, but luckier that I didn't fuck you the last time we met in San Francisco. this is the answer to your letter even though I don't know if you'll ever read it. the words are yours but I'll get credit for the poem. you see, it could never have worked, the way I am. B."
Author: Charles Bukowski
7. "And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian."
Author: Chris Hadfield
8. "That's how I approach just about everything. I spend my life getting ready to play "Rocket Man." I picture the most demanding challenge; I visualize what I would need to know how to do to meet it; then I practice until I reach a level of competence where I'm comfortable that I'll be able to perform. It's what I've always done, ever since I decided I wanted to be an astronaut in 1969, and that conscious, methodical approach to preparation is the main reason I got to Houston. I never stopped getting ready. Just in case."
Author: Chris Hadfield
9. "I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston."
Author: Concha Buika
10. "I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'"
Author: Dallas Roberts
11. "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."
Author: Dan Rather
12. "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."
Author: David Neeleman
13. "I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals."
Author: Diana Lopez
14. "I'm born and raised in Houston, Texas, but Wisconsin is always going to be a home for me, and I'll always be back."
Author: Donald Driver
15. "What the hell was your pal Bertin demanding?" he asked. "Sipping syrup?""It's a cocktail he prefers when he gets, ah, overly excited.""A cocktail?""Of sorts. Lemon–lime soda, vodka, codeine in solution, and a Jolly Rancher candy.""A what?""Bertin prefers the watermelon–flavored variety."D'Agosta shook his head. "Christ. Only in Louisiana.""Actually, I understand the concoction originated in Houston."
Author: Douglas Preston
16. "First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team."
Author: Earl Campbell
17. "I miss the guys. I don't get to see them often. We do get together in Houston now and then."
Author: Earl Campbell
18. "Shoot, after you've been through freeway traffic in Houston or Dallas, there's no road in the world that can scare you. Besides, we're pretty much used to driving long distances in Texas."
Author: Gib Lewis
19. "Know your load. That's rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I'm not going to be the schmuck who shows up in Orlando twobirds short of a dinner party....I know I'm pulling out of Houston with exactly forty-two Gentoo penguins, seventeen Jamaican land iguanas, four tuataras from New Zealand, and a pair of rare, civet-like mammals called linsangs. No more, no less."
Author: Jacob M. Appel
20. "I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television."
Author: Jeffrey Hunter
21. "What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell."
Author: Jenifer Lewis
22. "I've always looked up to Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey for their outstanding vocal performances. I've always been inspired by them."
Author: Jessica Mauboy
23. "In zijn eentje doodt Smithfield (Amerika's grootste producent van varkensvlees) jaarlijks meer varkens dan het gezamelijke inwonertal van New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Detroit, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Columbus, Austin, Forth Worth en Memphis - ongeveer 31 miljoen dieren."
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
24. "I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice."
Author: Justin Cronin
25. "I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels."
Author: Justin Cronin
26. "Poor Elinor! Willoughby on one side, Brandon on the other. She is quite entre deux feux." Prudie had a bit of lipstick on her teeth, or else it was wine. Jocelyn wanted to lean across and wipe it off with a napkin, the way she did when Sahara needed tidying. But she restrained herself; Prudie didn't belong to her. The fire sculpted Prudie's face, left the hollows of her cheeks hollow, brightened her deep-set eyes. She wasn't pretty like Allegra, but she was attractive in an interesting way. She drew your eye. She would probably age well, like Angelica Houston. If only she would stop speaking French. Or go to France, where it would be less noticeable."
Author: Karen Joy Fowler
27. "I went down for a week with the Houston Marshals. I didn't know that they hated paperwork as much as I hated it. They loathe it, man. They want to be in their cars catching the bad guys. They don't want to be filling out paperwork about the bad guys, you know, and the ones they've caught."
Author: Kelli Giddish
28. "Wow, look at this setup. NASA called. They want Houston back."
Author: Kresley Cole
29. "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."
Author: LaToya London
30. "I love Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Brandi, Sade, Nat King Cole. I like the Beatles. I listen to a lot of that."
Author: Leah LaBelle
31. "I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style."
Author: Lukas Haas
32. "I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting."
Author: Mireille Enos
33. "Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced."
Author: Molly Ivins
34. "One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl."
Author: Naturi Naughton
35. "Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed."
Author: Neil Armstrong
36. "Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros."
Author: Nolan Ryan
37. "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."
Author: Nolan Ryan
38. "Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century."
Author: Paul Goldberger
39. "Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston."
Author: Philip Johnson
40. "I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one."
Author: Sheila Jackson Lee
41. "In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it."
Author: Shelley Duvall
42. "From Flood, Flash, and Pheromones--coming soon:In the torrential downpour with water swirling that threatened to pull her down, she didn't see the voice's owner. The hurricane had blessed the entire city with a surprise drenching. All weather reports had predicted it to pass over with sporadic rainfall but that didn't happen. The storm settled over Houston as if it had no intention to move on. Cassie flailed in panic as the roof of her car disappeared under the water twenty feet beyond. She prayed once more that the container in it was watertight. And that she'd see her car again. Then she concentrated on living. Where had the voice come from?"
Author: Shelley K. Wall
43. "Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston."
Author: Stephen King
44. "I didn't talk all the way home, trying not to cry. A missed lesson! But why did it bother me so much? I'd missed lessons before. So what? Mrs. Lawrence was coming back, wasn't she? She had a right to visit her son in Houston, didn't she?...How could I explain I felt as thought part of my personal scaffolding was broken, and how I dangled one-handed from a rope? One-handed from a rope on a sinking ship? (128)"
Author: Susan Shaw
45. "Is Whitney? Is that your dealer?" "Whitney Houston," Mom said. "You know, dear. She was that singer who sang that song you like that Helena performed." "‘Hit Me Baby, One More Time?" "That's Britney, dear." "‘Dirty?" "That was Christina." "Umbrella?" "And that was Rihanna. Larry, you're embarrassing yourself. You have a gay son, for God's sake. How can you not know your divas?" Mom sounded affronted. "Paul? Paul! If you can hear me, don't listen to your father! He obviously doesn't know his ass from his elbow!" "Language," Dad scolded. "And I know my divas. I know them very well. What about that Woman Goo-Goo that Helena performs like?"
Author: T.J. Klune
46. "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."
Author: Ted Danson
47. "Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one."
Author: Tina Fey
48. "Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age."
Author: Toni Braxton
49. "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!"
Author: Wally Schirra
50. "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."
Author: Wilt Chamberlain
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