Cookson Oklahoma Quotes

arms wide and said, 'That's a question ~ Catherine Cookson

Fancy feathers make peacocks, but you pluck them and see what's left. ~ Catherine Cookson

Come and sit down girl, for days you've been flying around there like a bluebottle. ~ Catherine Cookson

Come on. There's such a thing as overstayin' your welcome. ~ Catherine Cookson

I think, for me, the main thing is feeling comfortable. ~ Sophie Cookson

Websites should look good from the inside and out ~ Paul Cookson

Constancy in a man is rare. ~ Catherine Cookson

Running a business without marketing will kill it ~ Paul Cookson

You make your son out to be to be almost an idiot; well let me tell you something, Mrs Loan, if he were a complete idiot, drooling at the mouth, he'd still be a better person then you. ~ Catherine Cookson

Her love for him was almost like a pain in itself. ~ Catherine Cookson

It's no good saying one thing and doing another. ~ Catherine Cookson

Eat, sleep & Breathe your business to ensure it's success ~ Paul Cookson

advertising produces familiarity which produces sales ~ Paul Cookson

To get over the guilt of drinking, take your brandy in milk. This way, it becomes medicinal. ~ Catherine Cookson

Great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine. ~ Paul Cookson

Whenever I've worn trousers or a suit, it always makes me feel sexy but effortless and confident. ~ Sophie Cookson

I love Oklahoma. The fans have been with me every night. What more can you ask for? ~ Kevin Durant

Oh God, I'm sorry I bring trouble on people. I don't mean to, you know that, you know that. And don't punish me by taking Ned. Keep him safe that's all I ask. That's all I'll ever ask again, just keep him safe. ~ Catherine Cookson

I dream about my teeth, losing a tooth, which I think means that you want control back. ~ Sophie Cookson

My approach to jewelry has always been to keep it very simple, but if you want to wear something, make sure it is exquisite and lovely and will stand out. ~ Sophie Cookson

You're born but you're not buried yet. ~ Catherine Cookson

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa. ~ J. C. Watts

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players. ~ Doc Rivers

If you don't like the weather in Oklahoma, wait a minute and it'll change. ~ Will Rogers

I love the English people - if you don't want to speak, you don't speak. And I'm quite like that sometimes. ~ Sophie Cookson

When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush. ~ Elizabeth Warren

I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American. ~ J. C. Watts

Oklahoma's always been good to me. ~ Alan Jackson

This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives. ~ Lizz Winstead

The Girl was gone, buried in the past. She never wanted to hear that name again. She was a woman for better for worse. Whatever the future might bring she could face it as a woman, Ned Ridley's woman. ~ Catherine Cookson

Mr. Oklahoma Sex on Wheels ~ Cat Johnson

I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma. ~ Brad Pitt

We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.' ~ Mick Cornett

With the exception of my wife and children, there's nothing I value more than my Oklahoma heritage. ~ James Garner

'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A. ~ Bailey Chase

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma. ~ Wanda Jackson

My dad owned a propane company in Oklahoma. ~ Johnny Bench

I am the mild-mannered organic chemistry teacher at the University of Oklahoma. ~ Donna Nelson

I understand the significance of being one of 18 senators in Oklahoma history. ~ James Lankford

I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters. ~ Tim Blake Nelson

The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ~ Rob Lowe

From the hills in the early dawn,
Small, thin, mist-wreathed, she came upon him;
Hair sodden to the brow,
Eyes like agates,
Lips apart, tongue flicking at words frozen in her head.
Gliding to his feet,
She caught his hand and said
'come help me, mister, or she'll be dead. ~ Catherine Cookson

I won't say I'm no better than anybody else, but I'll be danged if I ain't just as good! ~ Aunt Eller In Oklahoma

Oklahoma
Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain. ~ Oscar Hammerstein II

I love eating at Sonic with my family in Oklahoma. And no, I'm not kidding. ~ Kristin Chenoweth

I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up. ~ Ronnie Dunn

I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what I live for. ~ Chris Harrison

Not a single gun was used at the Oklahoma bombing. ~ Mark Levin

I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life. ~ Gore Vidal

Who wanted to live to a hundred and one? Who wanted to go on living at all at times? ~ Catherine Cookson

In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way. ~ Brad Pitt

Katz traces the courageous role of Black women in settling the West (and] deftly shows how these pioneering spirits helped stabilize early communities in Texas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere. ~ Herb Boyd

The Health Care Compact simply gives a state like Oklahoma the option to create a customized system that better meets the needs of Oklahoma families. ~ James Lankford

A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma. ~ Deacon Jones

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody. ~ Abe Lemons

Dozens of members of Congress will be retiring next month, and some should be missed. But there is only one Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma senator the Christian Science Monitor has dubbed 'a rabble-rousing statesman.' ~ John Fund

And, like the prodigal son, he had returned broken in body and also in mind to the house where he had been born, and he and his child had been welcomed with open arms. ~ Catherine Cookson

Oklahoma City bombing was done on purpose. Did you know the Federal Government blew up their own building to blame it on the militias and to get rid of some people that weren't cooperating with the system? ~ Kent Hovind

I like the phrase "shot heard 'round the world," and I don't think there's any doubt the Oklahoma City blast was heard around the world. ~ Timothy McVeigh

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. ~ Edward Abbey

Church files lawsuit over communion wafers: Oklahoma's Catholic Archbishop filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to halt the use of what he said were stolen communion wafers destined for a satanic black mass ceremony to be held next month in Oklahoma City. ~ Anonymous

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people. ~ Woody Guthrie

You have never kissed me. Patted me, hugged me, but you've never kissed me."
"Oh, Rosie, Rosie." His face looked on the point of laughter, then his lips fell gently on hers and he held the kiss for some time. Now, pressing her face from him, he said "That's merely an introduction. When your cheek is better I'll do it properly. ~ Catherine Cookson

for the days of age are not only much shorter than those in youth, but they rush away from you at a frightening rate. Take a day: a day in youth is an experience, and the last hour is as far away as a child's Christmas; a day in age is but a dim memory in a week that is already gone. At ~ Catherine Cookson

Oklahoma's my home. I love it there. I miss it. ~ Ryan Merriman

I don't want to be callous about it, but we all seemed to get over the Oklahoma bombing pretty quickly, and we're never going to get over 9/11. ~ Daniel Woodrell

Any questions I had about whether a redneck from Oklahoma could become a Brown Classical Philosophy professor ended when I met Tim [Blake Nelson]. ~ Edward Norton

I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler. ~ Christian Kane

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them. ~ Mick Cornett

But what he had learned over these past weeks was that people were entwined one with the other, and that you couldn't isolate yourself from them and say, 'I am going to be happy', because their emotions penetrated you and cast a shadow over your happiness, they tinged your love with sadness and fear until you were being forced to believe that sadness and fear were part of love. ~ Catherine Cookson

[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State. ~ Alistair Cooke

We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows. ~ Mick Cornett

Well, I never been to HeavenBut I been to OklahomaWell, they tell me I was born thereBut I really don't rememberIn Oklahoma, not ArizonaWhat does it matter, what does it matter? ~ Hoyt Axton

I wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s. ~ Garth Brooks

When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms. ~ Sheldon Whitehouse

I'm the only one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that has Final Draft on my computer. Then you show up and go to any coffee shop in L.A., and there are a hundred people your age with Final Draft. ~ Bill Hader

Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City. ~ Luis A. Ferre

There is something very nice about coming to New York and how everyone smiles - even if they don't mean it. When I go back home to London and say hello to people, they look at me like I'm crazy. ~ Sophie Cookson

In fifth grade, I did 'Oklahoma!,' but I didn't get a leading role. I knew the whole play and could sing it already, but they were like, 'The sixth-grader has to get the lead.' I was really discouraged. ~ Ansel Elgort

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth. ~ John Steinbeck

Whether you wish to admit it or not, when you approve, morally, of the bombing of foreign targets by the U.S. military, you are approving of acts morally equivalent to the bombing in Oklahoma City. ~ Timothy McVeigh

Coaching at Texas and playing at the University of Oklahoma, I had the opportunity to see a lot of guys in Texas - Texas lettermen - who I played against. ~ Darrell Royal

I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a better 'Oklahoma!' someplace, a better 'West Side Story.' And I'd like to be mixed up in it. ~ Richard Rodgers

I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that's where I want to raise my kids. ~ Carrie Underwood

The other night I lost consciousness. When I finally came to, it was morning. I spent the next 8 and a half hours doing things I didn't really feel like doing, but was compelled to do anyway. (Evidentially I receive something known as "financial Compensation" for this.) Eventually I was allowed to return home, where I recovered from the ordeal. I'm just afraid of what happens tonight, if I lose consciousness again. I have this fear that somehow this will start the process all over again. ~ David G. Cookson

If someone asks me to go to speak at, say, Princeton, I might or might not go. But if someone asks me from Norman, Oklahoma, I certainly will go. ~ Simon Schama

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated. ~ Brad Henry

Oklahoma is the cultural center of the universe. ~ Hoyt Axton

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana. ~ Tim Blake Nelson

We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from - Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either. ~ Carrie Underwood

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way! ~ Annette Bening

It's a road movie [Valentine]. I mean, yes. We film it here and it takes place from basically Colorado to Louisiana. That's the road trip. So we're all over the place. We go through bits of Texas and bits of Oklahoma. ~ Todd Farmer

Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were. ~ Tony Hillerman

I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life. ~ Reba McEntire

Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing. ~ Dan Jenkins

I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else. ~ Rick Perry

I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place. ~ Alexandra Guarnaschelli

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. ~ Brad Pitt

A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the Oklahoma City bombing. He told junior that it happened "because they hated too much"

For now, let`s accept the premise that one hundred sixty-eight humans died in Oklahoma City because people "hated too much"

Now answer these questions if you would be so kind: did a federal sniper shoot Vicki Weaver in the face because he hated too much? Did our government conduct the Tuskegee with syphilis on black soldiers because it hated too much? ~ Jim Goad

My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts. ~ Suzy Amis