Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Jackson

Oklahoma's always been good to me.

Chinua Achebe

Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.

Chinua Achebe

An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb

Edna Ferber

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

Bobby Heenan

Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.

Like I said, I didn't ask, ... When I got the thumbs-up I said OK and I walked out, so I don't know.

Brad Henry

This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.

Brad Henry

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

Brad Pitt

I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

Brad Pitt

Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

I don't get how it's okay to keep someone alive once they're sick - but not okay to stop them getting sick. I just don't get that.

Blake Bailey

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

Bill Hicks

Okay, I got one word to ask you, a one word question, ready?

Trinny Woodall

Shorts are practically a uniform in every woman's closet. Tailored shorts are okay for running around, and if you're 18, you can get away with cut-offs. But it's very easy to make a mistake with shorts.

We're anxiously awaiting the OK from these guys.

Edward Abbey

One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

Callie Thorne

So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.

She understands the severity of what's going on down there and that those people need help, ... She's OK with it.

The question is: Are we really talking as a society that we want to support suicide for anyone? Because this is a societal question. Are we saying suicide is okay for some people but not other people?

Andrea Gibson

Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.

Magnus Carlsen

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

N. Scott Momaday

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

Ron Howard

We played an OK game, but we've just got to play a little better.

Jason Aldean

I love fried okra. The fact that it's okra makes me feel like it's good for you - I forget the fact that it's fried.

I don't understand this jury. But I have one consolation: (Nichols and Timothy McVeigh) are still going to be tried in Oklahoma City.

I don't understand this jury, ... But I have one consolation: (Nichols and Timothy McVeigh) are still going to be tried in Oklahoma City.

Reggie Bush

I don't have to down-talk Oklahoma. Everyone saw the way we played, saw the way Oklahoma played. It's really pretty self-explanatory.

I did okay (in the 800). I could have done better. I like it better outside.

Anita Hill

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977

Don Nickles

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

Frank Luntz

It can be done more wisely and effectively, or hey, not at all! We're okay with that too!

Herb Williams

He seemed OK to me, but he was sitting down for the most part.

Harry Redknapp

He should be okay for Saturday but he's going to have play through the pain barrier.