36 Quotes About Oklahoma

We’ve measured the wingspan at twenty-five feet,” the crime tech concluded.“Well, that’s no scissor-tailed flycatcher,” Shane scoffed. “What could they possibly belong to?”Ramon shrugged. “Your guess is as good as mine. Nothin’ natural that size lives around here, that’s for sure.

-Tabi Slick

  • Author Jax Miller
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    I come to Oklahoma, thinking that it’ll be hard to write about the dead, but it has proven harder to write about the living, about those who’ll have to read themselves through my eyes.

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    #nonfiction #oklahoma #writing
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I come to Oklahoma, thinking that it’ll be hard to write about the dead, but it has proven harder to write about the living, about those who’ll have to read themselves through my eyes.

-Jax Miller

Honestly, I'd rather be anywhere else. Even home, where my dad begins almost every conversation with, "You should lose the black clothes and wear something with color." Puh-lease. Like I want to look like every Barbie clone in Hell High, a.k.a. Oklahoma's insignificant Haloway High School. Ironically, Dad doesn't appreciate the bright blue streaks in my originally blond/now-dyed-black hair. Go figure. That's color, right?

-Gena Showwalter

How many of you were born in Oklahoma? Yeah, never raise your hand to a question like that again. We’re the mecca of beer-drinkin’ rednecks.

-Bryant A. Loney

  • Author Jeannette Walls
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    You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art supplies strapped to the roof, we'd out-Okied the Okies.

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    #oklahoma #poor
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You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art supplies strapped to the roof, we'd out-Okied the Okies.

-Jeannette Walls

If we can skillfully create something out of nothing and emotionally touch readers, we have done our JOB as #writers and #authors ~ Jodi Lea Stewart

-Jodi Lea Stewart

  • Author Jackson Burnett
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    I came to the state twenty years ago from the South, the gothic South. I’ve heard it called that, haven’t you, Mister Morgan? ‘Thought I was gettin’ away from all that. You know, the Tennessee Williams’ decadence, the Huey Long corruption, the brewin’ and simmerin’ violence. I actually found that I kind of missed it. Then, I found out it was all here, too, but without the charm.

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    #corruption #oklahoma #place #the-south
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I came to the state twenty years ago from the South, the gothic South. I’ve heard it called that, haven’t you, Mister Morgan? ‘Thought I was gettin’ away from all that. You know, the Tennessee Williams’ decadence, the Huey Long corruption, the brewin’ and simmerin’ violence. I actually found that I kind of missed it. Then, I found out it was all here, too, but without the charm.

-Jackson Burnett

Given the pandemic and remote schooling, children are now being expected to perform at a higher pace and with greater productivity. The demands not only affect the children, but the demands are overflowing onto their parental caregivers.

-Asa Don Brown

Oklahoma is very beautiful, and Eric loves beauty, but he already has that in you.

-Charlaine Harris

 

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