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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.