Tennessee Quotes

I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.

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

Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.

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.

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

There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.

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.

I've been dreaming of this moment since I was a kid growing up in Tennessee: that one day, I'd have the chance to come here to Madison Square Garden and be the warm-up act for Elvis.

The education needs in Silicon Valley versus rural Iowa versus Tennessee are very different.

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

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

Sign at a Tennessee highway: When this sign is under water, this road is impassable.

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

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.

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

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

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

Both teams are making mistakes. Florida's making these itsy-bitsy little ones, and Tennessee is making huge, gigantic mistakes.

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.

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

I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

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.

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

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

I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.

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’’.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

I chose Tennessee because I thought theyd give me an opportunity to play.

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

The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.

...love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow...

...and should I die in her care, I would leave smiling because, I will linger in the hills beside her...

Memory, of course, is unreliable, often evil, but it is the source of our identity."--Tennessee Williams

I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill.