Dubuque Quotes

#1. I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.
Grandfather Wills , Hocus Pocus

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. He felt like a green-as-grass PFC from Dubuque, Iowa, trading banter with the hardened South Vietnamese regular attached to his unit. "So,

Lev Grossman

#3. I find I go in airports anywhere in the country, and someone's always coming up to me and saying 'Hey, you're at my country club in Dubuque, right?' You know, because they kind of know my face, but they don't know why.

Dylan Baker

#4. I don't care where we go, as long as it's not Dubuque!" Dumbo

Rick Yancey

#5. New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.

Robert Benchley

#6. I try to be nice, I try to respect other people, but over the years I've learned that all this stuff we do is a bunch of crap. That doesn't mean it doesn't have its place. We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?

Tom Ford

#7. There is nothing like

Sylvia Plath

#8. It meant nothing. Some people are like that: everything comes out like a lie. Not that they're brilliant liars, just that they're useless at telling the truth. You get left with no way to tell what's the real fake and what's the fake one.

Tana French

#9. Imitation is the best form of flattery.

Marie Dubuque

#10. [On the premiere of a dull show:] I've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella.

Margaret Whiting

#11. I know he's going to be fired up. He's going to try to get some revenge for the NCAA finals. He's probably been looking forward to this match since last March.

Joe Dubuque

#12. Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over.

Jaime Herrera Beutler

#13. Guidance happens when we create the space in our minds to allow our angels to speak up.
Set your ego aside and listen!

Catherine Carrigan

#14. Learn to think continentally.

Alexander Hamilton

#15. The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a man who didn't come from much. His father left him and his family for another woman. His father was a musician, which I thought was pretty interesting.

Richard LaGravenese

#16. When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.

Joy Harjo

#17. Our first priority should be the people who work for the companies, then the customers, then the shareholders. Because if the staff are motivated then the customers will be happy, and the shareholders will then benefit through the company's success.

Richard Branson

#18. Eros supported a population of one and a half million, a little more than Ceres had in visitors at any given time.

James S.A. Corey

#19. Thomas remembered the image of the Cranks at the windows back at the dorm. Like living nightmares, missing only a death certificate to make them official zombies.

James Dashner

#20. But it only makes visible a darkness that's already there. Maybe eating it like that ... " She looked at Deenie, her voice like a pulse in Deenie's brain. "Maybe you bring the darkness inside you. Maybe Lise has it inside her now.

Megan Abbott

#21. And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

Wangari Maathai

#22. I'm sorry, Imi." His apology whispered in my ears as I left the room. But it was the words that followed that burrowed deep.
"I'm sorry I couldn't be who you deserved."
I stopped just before opening the door.
"I'm sorry I believed that you already were," I responded softly.

A Meredith Walters