Houston Quotes

I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one.

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

Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio

Houston, we've had a problem here.

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

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

I have been influenced by the greatest artists in jazz, pop, reggae, traditional, ballards, pop, and all types of music, taking the best from each to represent my own personality. Whitney Houston, George Michaels, Sade, Phil Collins, and many others have influenced me.

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

Houston people are way cool. They're smart, they know how to have a good time, and they have the hottest chicks on the planet there.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

If I could, I would live in Houston, and I would encourage any comic starting out looking for a good place to develop to move there.

I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers...What for? Houston isn't on our schedule.

I never thought I would meet Mariah Carey, but I really never thought I'd be introduced to her by Whitney Houston. She's like, "Hey, baby, this is Mariah." I'm like, "I know. I'm Darren. I don't know what I'm doing here."

There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music.

Houston, we have a problem.

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.

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

The former police chief of Houston once said of me: "Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it 'U.R. Hooked' and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver's license for identification."

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

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!

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

I began to rationalize marrying Will [William Houston Price]. 'He comes from a good family. A girl could do worse.' (As it turned out, I couldn't, but I didn't know that yet.)

The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.

My lady makes me do it. I sang Whitney Houston's "Bodyguard".

I didn’t know baboons could drive recreational vehicles, but Khufu did okay. When I woke up around dawn, he was navigating through the early morning rush hour in Houston, baring his fangs and barking a lot, and none of the other drivers seemed to notice anything out of the ordinary.

I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @ is called chiocciola (snail) in Italian! The & was once taught as a letter of the alphabet! The manicule has been with us for a millennium! Thank you, Keith Houston, for bringing these little mysteries out of the shadows of typographic history.

I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.

When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique. I'm from Houston, so naturally, everyone dropped the second syllable of your name and just put an "O" there.

A huge Chinese population here in... Houston.

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.

Houston Alexander is for real!

Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.

There was an edge of, 'Go away kid, you're bothering me'. I've kicked myself a million times since. I could've discovered Whitney Houston.

Its unbelievable, I cant even describe it. To be a big part of bringing the World Series the first World Series ever to Houston is just tremendous.

There are places in America that have not just protected middle-class neighborhoods but reduced homelessness. Even places like Houston have been able to reduce homelessness among veterans. It's a pretty shameful situation.

My music is just fresh. Everybody say it's a breath of fresh air because it's not like the normal Houston sound you would hear. I am from Houston and I use that same slang and I carry myself the same way as a Houstonian and I'm a Houston dude born and raised, but the music is a lil bit different due to the things I've seen and the things I've learned and put that into my music.

I don't mind being compared to Whitney (Houston), there are people miles worse to be compared to.

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.

Well I've always wanted to sing at something called The Houston Rodeo in my hometown, so hopefully I'll get to do that one day.

There's nothing funny about flying to Houston.

When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.

When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.

I'll be a Houston Astro no matter what ... I would certainly want to leave myself open to a return to the team if that made sense for the organization and for me as well.

I always feel like there are specific things about Houston. There's one museum in particular in Houston. So many of the things that I'm interested in now I can sort of trace back to that museum, which introduced me to them.

A store in Houston is selling Donald Trump piñatas filled with candy. So finally something good is going to come out of Donald Trump.

Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer.

I know I'm no Whitney Houston.

At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days.

I'm saying that she (Whitney Houston) looks great for a singer... the way Courtney Love is a singer.