Iowa Quotes - Page 4

• Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.

  Paul Engle

  Country, Small Changes, Rolling

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• Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.

  Paul Engle

  Children, Church Bells, Sound

  Paul Engle (1960). “Prairie Christmas”

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• There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa tries to offer such a community, congenial to the young writer, with his uneasiness about writing as an honorable career, or with his excess of ego about calling himself a writer.

  Paul Engle

  New York, Writing, Careers

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• I'm delighted to be back in coaching. Our goal is to put Iowa wrestling back on top, and I want to do everything I can to make it happen.

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Goal, Coaching

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• Look what Ted Cruz did with Ben Carson, who's endorsed me, a great guy. Look what he did to Ben Carson. He said that Ben Carson in Iowa has left, he's out of the campaign, vote for me. Thousands of people voted for him because he convinced people that Ben Carson had left the campaign.

  Donald Trump

  People, Guy, Ben Carson

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Hillary Clinton is driving across Iowa in a van. It's to get to know the people she'll never, ever see again in her life.

  David Letterman

  People, Driving, Clinton

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• Hillary Clinton is now in Iowa. She's spending every waking minute of her day meeting ordinary people, and it's to prepare her for a job in which she will never again meet an ordinary person.

  David Letterman

  Jobs, People, Waking

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• Hillary Clinton wrote an Op-Ed for a paper in Iowa about her plans to help the middle class. Middle-class Americans said, 'Why didn't you just say that in a speech?' and she said, 'Because I charge $200,000 for a speech.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Class, Paper, Speech

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• Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.

  Joan Didion

  Land, California, West Coast

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.31, Zola Books

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• When I left Iowa, I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they approved of me. I made up my mind to take my work to the actual reading public.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Reading, Mind, Groups

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• One of the first things I bought when I made 'Roseanne Show' money was a farm in Iowa.

  Roseanne Barr

  Firsts, Made, Shows

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• In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle, everyone's from Seattle. But in Vegas, you have six from Seattle, a bunch from L.A., some local Las Vegans and maybe a farmer from Iowa. In Vegas, you learn the ins and outs of holding a room because of that great spectrum of folks.

  Lewis Black

  Country, Vegas, Play

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• I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.

  Albert Brooks

  Politician, Members, Caucus

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• Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing.

  James Fenton

  Writing, Creative, Desire

  "Where poetry and music divide" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• I love mythology, grew up loving it. I'm a middle kid, big family, that's the thing you did in the farm country. I lived in Iowa, I loved mythology. I don't know, we're like that.

  Kellan Lutz

  Country, Kids, Big Families

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• I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama, then candidate Obama, going through Iowa making promises. I think the gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.

  Mitt Romney

  Wedding, Promise, President

  "Romney: Obama’s promises as good as Kim Kardashian's wedding vows" by Cameron Joseph, thehill.com. January 2, 2012.

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• I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa.

  Marco Rubio

  Offensive, Candidates, Coordinator

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• Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.

  John Sununu

  Years, Political, Presidential

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• And Father said, “There are no happy endings.” “Right!” cried Iowa Bob – an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his cracked voice. “Death is horrible, final, and frequently premature,” Coach Bob declared. “So what?” my father said. “Right!” cried Iowa Bob. “That’s the point: So what?” Thus the family maxim was that an unhappy ending did not undermine a rich and energetic life. This was based on the belief that there were no happy endings.

  John Irving

  Father, Voice, Unhappy

  "The Hotel New Hampshire". Book by John Irving, 1981.

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• Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You mean like Alaska?

  Dana Stabenow

  Mean, Idaho, Alaska

  Dana Stabenow (2011). “Play with Fire”, p.99, Gere Donovan Press

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• Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Bellafonte.

  Justin Cronin

  Girl, Years, Amy

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.3, Ballantine Books

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• The goat, for us, is an image that's stuck in our heads since we were kids, coming from Iowa people are like 'Beware the horned goat of satan!' and all that. It's bullshit. It's just an animal.

  Corey Taylor

  Kids, Animal, People

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• I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.

  Al Sharpton

  Dean, Wanted, Stills

  Al Sharptona at Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2004.

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• Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came from. I was used to dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors--tan, rusty red, toned white--and the endless green of Iowa offended me. I was used to a sun that came up over mountains and went down behind other mountains. I missed the color and smell of sagebrush, and the sight of bare ground.

  Wallace Stegner

  Teacher, Fall, Sight

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• I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

  Jackie Mason

  Country, Winning, Ideas

  "Everything Bold Is New Again: An Interview with Jackie Mason". Interview with Bernard Chapin, spectator.org. April 18, 2007.

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