Des Quotes

68 quotes by 59 authors

Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city. — Bill Bryson
Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a… — Bill Bryson
(On upcoming racing plans) Right now I am going to go back into training and then I am going to resurface and do the BAA… — Leonel Manzano
I don't want a politician who's thinking about fashion for even one millisecond. It's the same as medical professionals. The idea of a person in… — Simon Doonan
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 after… — Wallace Carothers
I moved to Des Moines when I was 15. I asked my mother to give up costody and sign parental rights over to my grandmother,… — Corey Taylor
Qui sait dÃ©guster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goÃ»te des secrets — Salvador Dali
I'il n'est pas en notre pouvoir de changer la nature des choses. Il faut les Ð¹tudier telles qu'elles sont. — Jean-Baptiste Say
Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des… — Karl Marx
I have cervical cancer. I'm what they call a DES baby... I have been cancer free for 7 years now... I had it the first… — Amy Weber
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in… — Cyril Connolly
There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them at the aquarium at the Jardin des… — Julio Cortazar
What were the relations between the Jews and the secret societies? That is not easy to elucidate, for we lack reliable evidence. Obviously they did… — Bernard Lazare
The blackÂest desÂpair that can take hold of any sociÂety is the fear that livÂing honÂestly is futile. — Corrado Alvaro
I-just-got-off-the-bus-and-I'm-really-excited-and-ambitious-and-I-took-an-acting-class-in-Des-Moines-and-I-know-I-really-need-an-agent-and-I-want-one-NOW — Bonnie Gillespie
Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto… — Claude Debussy
C'este donc par l'Ã©tude des mathÃ©matiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idÃ©e juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une… — Auguste Comte
Well apparently nothing as of December 13, 1978. There was 20 trained police officers came to the house, with a warrant..searched the house, and they… — John Wayne Gacy
After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940, the last two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from the Nazis, eating… — Nicolaas Bloembergen
Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord… — Barack Obama

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