Branstad Iowa Quotes

#1. Iowa voters are intelligent enough to make up their minds.

Terry Branstad

#2. Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#3. I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.

S.J. Watson

#4. Maybe I'm wrong," Mom said. "Maybe the world really is coming to an end."
"Should I try Fox News?" I asked.
Mom shuddered. "We're not that desperate," she said.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#5. It doesn't really matter in the end. Most people I talk to don't take writing seriously. If I tell them I'm an aspiring author, they get that "yeah right" look on their face, which is usually followed by "good luck with that.

Karina Halle

#6. It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

Tamara Mellon

#7. I tried to roll out of Reyes's arms. He tightened his hold. I tried to lift an arm off me, but he clasped his fingers, essentially locking me in. "Reyes," I said, stifling a giggle, "I know you're awake. You can give up the game." "Never," he said into his pillow.

Darynda Jones

#8. And then, little by little, the reality of what I had just done sank in: I had just killed my boyfriend's dad!

Meg Cabot

#9. Funny is funny is funny.

Bob Newhart

#10. My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

Orlando Bloom

#11. They got Indian vision and can sight back further than you and me will ever sight ahead.

Ray Bradbury

#12. As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues.

Kristin Davis

#13. I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details.

Pam Gems

#15. You would have been better off if you admitted to yourself that she was the love of your life. It might have saved us some pain.

Adria J. Cimino