Midwest Quotes · Page 4

Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats.

— Judy Woodruff

I want to rob a bank so much - and I'm from the Midwest, so we have like one bank, no security…

— Kellan Lutz

I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my…

— Rob Lowe

I'm a Scandinavian Midwest girl who doesn't always know what's going on in herself emotionally, which is why I make music in…

— Erika M. Anderson

I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit…

— Jim Gaffigan

I'm from the Midwest, have a round face, and I'm friendly. I feel like I have a lot of leeway to do…

— Esther Povitsky

The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In…

— Stewart O'Nan

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

— Jeremy Piven

At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a…

— Bill Gates

I'm still in the Midwest, but I'm in Columbus, Ohio, so I'm three and a half hours away from everybody. That's one…

— David Pajo

I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I…

— Daniel Boulud

There are a lot of regulations that are really just crushing jobs. Look at the coal miners in the Rust Belt that…

— Paul Ryan

“...the Midwest is coping with a twenty-first-century problem [globalization] with a nineteenth-century political and social structure [relying on state and city solutions…

— Richard C. Longworth

I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life…

— Lesley Gore

Wrigley is special because of the people there. It's everything from the people there who enjoy baseball. It's the Midwest, Chicago and…

— Aaron Boone

I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a…

— Richard Beymer

Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York…

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

“Rosie and Mary had taken only a 10 percentage of this privilege - they were three minutes late leaving their room and…

— Jane Smiley

“They are the largest collection of freshwater lakes in the world. They border eight U.S. states and the Canadian Providence of Ontario…

— Susan Magsamen

“It had been building for a while, starting with a tiny ache, for life as I’d known it before, and culminating--once J…

— Ree Drummond

I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting…

— Jami Attenberg

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic - those are sort of three layers of repression.

— Paul Rust

I didn't know any other actors that were also bodybuilders. I certainly didn't know any that were also queer, that were also…

— Katy O'Brian

White Castle has a unique position in the Midwest. It is a cult brand that has developed a strong, loyal following.

— Ron Paul

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

— Douglas Wilson

My wife and I grew up in the Northeast but my daughters are sort of small-town girls, from the Midwest.

— Frank Vogel

The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres.

— Chuck Inglish

Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.

— Robert Gottlieb

“The Midwest is full of these types of people: the nice-enoughs. Nice enough but with a soul made of plastic—easy to mold,…

— Gillian Flynn

Chicago - it's the Midwest, and the people are not as tough or not as edgy as they are in New York.

— Frank Vincent

“If you believe that life should be full of adventure , then you have to willing to let your kids have them, too.”

— Kathleen Flinn

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

— Diablo Cody

You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.

— Joe Lando

This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered.

— Jim McKelvey

We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

People in the Midwest move at a much slower pace and things are not as dire as they are in the city.

— Mike Faist

I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics.

— Karyn Kusama

Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing…

— Daniel Breaker

Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let…

— Lorrie Moore