Midwest Quotes
100 Midwest quotes by 93 unique authors
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In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
— Suzanne Farrell
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I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that…
— Wiz Khalifa
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I lived in a tiny Midwest town, so I was always looking for adventure.
— Kellan Lutz
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When I meet gay fans out and about, they're so great to talk to - and I'm big on hugging, because I'm from the Midwest.…
— Kellan Lutz
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I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.
— Michael Moore
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There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.
— Ajay Naidu
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The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.
— Mike Pence
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I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I…
— Liz Phair
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I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in…
— Jason Reitman
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In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane…
— Bernie Sanders
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I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is…
— Michael Symon
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I had a lot of fun bantering back and forth with Kennedy. But for ease and comfort, it would be Gerald Ford. He was a…
— Helen Thomas
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The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm…
— Vince Vaughn
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Today, President Obama is making smart investments in clean energy - wind, solar, biofuels - as part of an all-of-the-above energy strategy that supports thousands…
— Tom Vilsack
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I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have…
— Scott Walker
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Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there…
— Lorrie Moore
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So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run…
— Annie Dillard
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The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?
— Stewart O'Nan
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I tried to imagine how things could get much worse. The gods were in the Midwest fighting a huge monster that had almost defeated them…
— Rick Riordan
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A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone from Des Moines,…
— Neil Gaiman
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For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a…
— David Foster Wallace
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I'm the one not caring. I'm the one pretending the Earth isn't shattering all around me because I don't want it to be. I don't…
— Susan Beth Pfeffer
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I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where…
— John Malkovich
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I lived five years in the Midwest, and I loved it. The people were so nice. The people were so open.
— John Irving
Who Wrote These Midwest Quotes
93 authors contributed a total of 100 Midwest Quotes, led by these top contributors: