...the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

I come Des Moines. Somebody had to.

— Bill Bryson

If you want to be a comedian, go out. Do a week in Des Moines, Iowa. Try to make those people laugh.

— Nick Swardson

I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna be tuning…

— Steven Spielberg

So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

— Jack Kerouac

I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I give 110 percent every…

— Bret Michaels

You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa…

— Zach Johnson

We don't have a constant PR person or anything. That's why people say. 'Oh, you're still together?' Yeah. I'm in Des Moines with the…

— Fred Schneider

Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.

— Bill Bryson

I still live in Des Moines.

— Shawn Crahan

Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when…

— Zach Johnson

I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.

— Stephen Collins

This sounds corny, but I once told a kid when I was in a the library conference, the best - not the best, what…

— Nat Hentoff

My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa, so that…

— Wallace Carothers

Hardly anyone ever leaves. This is because Des Moines is the most powerful hypnotic known to man. Outside town there is a big sign…

— Bill Bryson

Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of…

— Barack Obama