Tennessee Quotes

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

Savannah is a . . . lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets. . . . There are legendary scenes . . . to rival any dreamed up by Tennessee Williams.

All my ex's live in Texas, And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be, But all my ex's live in Texas, Therefore I reside in Tennessee

My problem with Obama is that he's not a new paradigm; he's an old paradigm. A new paradigm would be somebody like Harold Ford [former Democratic Congressman from Tennessee] or Michael Steele [former Republican Lieutenant Governor of Maryland], no relation, both of whom present themselves as individuals, and don't seem to wear a mask. They don't 'bargain;' they don't 'challenge.' So, I see them as fresh, and as evidence of what I hope will be a new trend.

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said ain't, or something like that.

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams.

Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.

A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Molière and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.

[Doctor Cukrowicz] was basically a role where you have two diva actresses - Maggie Smith and Natasha Richardson - and my role was to say, "And then what happened? Tell me more." But I wanted to do it was because a) it was Tennessee Williams, a great writer, and b) it was Richard Eyre, an amazing director. And to work with those two amazing women!

Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.

Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.

I don't even want to call it God. I just want to call it connecting with something that's greater than I am. So that's the biggest thing from Tennessee - the spirit.

Tennessee Williams, one of my favorite playwrights, [lived] down there. You always heard about the Keys and how amazing they are and, well, it's like a highway with some bars on it.

I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.

This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.

I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.

There are so many different versions of "Tennessee Waltz" and they're all so good.

Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

Let me tell about Tennessee. If your car breaks down in Tennessee, you have just moved to Tennessee.

Shame about how we’re gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It’s the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is “sodomy’’.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

Tennessee helps me open up. I'm much more vulnerable there, more willing to talk about anything.

I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs.

When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?

I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!

I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.

In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.

Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles - all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on

When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.