"So I rushed past the pretty girls, and……" — Jack Kerouac
"So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines."
More Des Moines Quotes
- 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… — Bill Bryson
- (On upcoming racing plans) Right now I am going to go back into training and then I am going to… — Leonel Manzano
- My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des… — Wallace Carothers
- I moved to Des Moines when I was 15. I asked my mother to give up costody and sign parental… — Corey Taylor
- 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
- Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and… — Barack Obama
- I come from Des Moines. Someone had to. — Bill Bryson
- I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs. — Stephen Collins
- It's hard to pass up a pole vault opportunity here in Des Moines. The crowd was so great when I… — Jenn Suhr
- I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I… — Bret Michaels
- Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines. — Barbara Walters