Kinky Friedman Quotes

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

We don't need to fundamentally transform America. We need to restore America.

We have to breathe new life into Europe.

I want to fight the wussification of the State of Texas. I want to rise and shine and bring back the glory.

I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp.

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

We definitely need to get the excitement back.

When I joined in 1990, as they say in the sport of sailing, Puma was in the doldrums. It was a difficult time, and Puma had gone to sleep.

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.

The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.

The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us.

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

Comeback is a good word, man.

The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

I've been able to get an excitement back in the water.

I have converted this Cape from a barren waste…to a desirable place of refreshment.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

All the things I have done at one point or another have fallen out of fashion, and there's nothing better than trying to bring something back to life.

Renaissance always comes out of depression.

Nature recharges me.

What was old can be brought back new, and I bring that to the table. I bring mannerisms, facials, body language, positioning.

To be worn out is to be renewed.

As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.