Quotes About Being From Indiana

#1. I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

Robert Indiana

#2. No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#3. Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Douglas Coupland

#4. People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.

Bobby Knight

#5. Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.

Elliott Carter

#6. I know that and I feel that.

Vitali Klitschko

#7. I started doing science when I was effectively 20, a graduate student of Salvador Luria at Indiana University. And that was - you know, it took me about two years, you know, being a graduate student with Luria deciding I wanted to find the structure of DNA; that is, DNA was going to be my objective.

James D. Watson

#8. For the first time in his centuries of life, doing the right thing didn't seem like the right thing to do.

Marissa Clarke

#9. I'd been acting and doing stand-up in New York about eight years, getting rejected, and I finally got the opportunity to do stand-up on Letterman, which holds even more importance for me. With comedians, that's definitely the pinnacle, but being from Indiana, it was a big to-do.

Jim Gaffigan

#10. I had a really generic upbringing, I think, when it comes to viewing movies as a kid. I didn't really know what was out there or what was being tried. I was, like, 'E.T.' and 'Indiana Jones.' Those were the only things I knew existed.

Shane Carruth

#11. Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It's a little like having live cave-level access for the ripping-the-heart-out-with-the-bare-hands scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Matt Taibbi

#12. I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it.

Jack Dempsey

#13. She breathed in the cold, and it felt free, so she felt free, and it felt alive, so she felt alive.

Marie Rutkoski

#14. When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood - and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii.

Dwayne Johnson

#15. Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon ... these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about as I was developing Jonas Quantum because there aren't that many brand new characters being introduced anymore.

Marc Guggenheim

#16. Elizabeth squirmed on the hard wooden bench, and tried to ignore both her sore backside and her rumbling stomach. Why did the minister's sermons last so long? And why did the talk of sin always give her such a hearty appetite?

Anya Seton

#17. The only answers to the question, "why me", are more situations that raise the same question. That's because self-pity is a wall that blocks all light.

Charles F. Glassman

#18. I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he's going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.

Mark Burnett