Texas Lampshades

Parts of Texas look like Kansas with a goiter. - Unknown

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. - Theodore Roethke

Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light. - John Webster

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. - Christopher Columbus

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light. - Groucho Marx

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? - Mae West

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. - JRR Tolkien

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to being it to light. - George Washington

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans. - George Carlin

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. - Jennie Jerome Churchill

If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining. - Guy Finley

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. - Robert Wilson

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. - Unknown

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? - Kinky Friedman

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. - Anton Chekhov

I'm a Catholic deer hunter. I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. - Paul Ryan

When I take a gun in hand, the safest place for a pheasant is just opposite the muzzle. - Sydney Smith

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. - James Thurber

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it. - Ann Richards

You don't need a floodlight to bring light into the darkness - a single flame will do. - Clare Josa

Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter. - Bono

Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light. What so proudly we hailed. Of thee I sing. - Archie Bunker

We have been too long in darkness. Once already we have been in the light, and we want it again. - Alexander Dubcek

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas. - Malcolm McDowell

Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. - B.K. Iyengar

Fathers are like a lighthouse - when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light. - Unknown

I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes. - Carroll Shelby

I sleep with a light on in the bathroom so I can see where I'm at, because I wake up and have no clue. - Carrie Underwood

The baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
'Turn on the dark,
I'm afraid of the light.' - Shel Silverstein

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

I exercise at least five times a week with stretching, Pilates, push-ups, planks, sit-ups, squats and light weights. - Reba McEntire

Only think of two things - the gun and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell until you break the other. - Sam Mussabini

The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington. - Yakov Smirnoff

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. - Woody Allen

Remembering that each of us will take our turns in darkness and in light, let us be light for one another when the darkness falls. - Unknown

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. - T S Eliot

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest. - Joe-kster

I'm afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me. - Paulo Cohelo

Americans are incredibly impatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk. - Jim Rohn

When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation. - Justin Cronin