Austin Quotes
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Actually, my name is Austin Powers. Danger is my middle name. -- Austin, in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
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[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.
robert burton— Section 2, member 3, subsection 11.
Adjusting my thick glasses and dropping my half-Chinese Austin Powers accent, I futilely try to defend myself (noting there's nothing worse in the world than being screamed at by a bunch of female celebrity impersonators).
harmon leon— An Imposter Impersonator, p. 78.
What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
"weird al" yankovic— Replying to a fan criticising the poor seats a reviewer of a concert received. "Ask Al" Q&As for September 6, 2004
He is the first of our writers whose style is cloathed with that perspicuity, in which the English phraseology appears at this day to an English reader…Whether his subject be the life of a hermit or a hero, of saint Austin or Guy earl of Warwick, ludicrous or legendary, religious or romantic, a history or an allegory, he writes with facility.
john lydgate— Thomas Warton The History of English Poetry (1774-81) vol. 2, pp. 52-3.
Against the reasoning it would be in vain to argue, as the Protestants did in their confessions, and elsewhere. "that if the saints heard the prayers of "their votaries, they must be omnipotent." There was hardly a protestant among them, that in those days, would venture to deny the indubitable maxim of St Austin, and having once placed the saints in heaven, nothing would disparage them so much as to suppose they had not as much spiritual intelligence as the Devils.
— Francis Blackburne (1772) 'An Historical View of the Controversy concerning an Intermediate State and the Separate Existence of the Soul between Death and the General Resurrection. p.68-69
St. Austin might have returned another answer to him that asked him, "What God employed himself about before the world was made?" "He was making hell."
Robert Southey— Robert Southey, Commonplace Book, Fourth Series, p. 591.
Texas quarterback Vince Young - "It's so beautiful," Young said as he received the MVP crystal. "Don't you think that's beautiful? It's coming home all the way to Austin, Texas, baby."
— Texas Wins Rose Bowl 41-38. The Daily Texan (2006-01-04). Retrieved on 2006-07-13.
Austin White, Chicago, Ill., 1918 and 1944. This is the last time I want to write my name here.
— Inscription found near Verdun, France by a reporter for Yank magazine (a magazine for the soldiers). Yank Magazine
