Texas Lampshades

Leave the gun, take the cannoli. - The Godfather

Numb the dark and you numb the light. - Brene Brown

You can always tell a Texan, but not much. - Unknown

A proverb is much light condensed in one flash. - Simmons

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch. - David A. Schmaltz

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians. - Henry Rollins

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen

If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. - Chinese Proverb

Guns don't kill people. Dads with pretty daughters kill people. - Unknown

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus. - Robin Williams

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. - Helen Keller

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

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train! - Mariah Carey

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. - Al Capone

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door. - Martin McGuinness

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

Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with. - Jensen Ackles

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

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.' - George W. Bush

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

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

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. - Ezra Pound

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within. - Bob Nelson

The next woman who gets hold of me is gonna light up like a pinball machine and pay off in silver dollars. - Jack Nicholson

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. - Oliver Wendell Homes, Jr.

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

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. - Alan Alda

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. - Unknown

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

If I were a flower,
humming bird would be my favourite bee
And If I were blind,
the light of darkness I'd love to see - Munia Khan

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. - Yasser Arafat

I'd love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I'd also like just one more hit single. - Tiny Tim

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn and shine with increasing clearness on your path. - 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