Quotes About Indiana

#1. People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.

John Mellencamp

#2. If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film.

Sean Connery

#3. At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.

Bob Edwards

#4. we saw a man walking in our midst who would have made James Bond feel insecure. Indiana Jones would have looked like a momma's boy compared to the man in the leather jacket with two days' growth of beard who walked to where my mother stood and then - horror of horrors - winked at her.

Ally Carter

#5. I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body from the neck down and made me realize that acting and communication - portraying a story, event, or emotion - is a full-body experience.

Doug Jones

#6. I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing cynicism among all Hoosiers.

Jim Gaffigan

#7. Henry: Well I'm sorry about your head though, but I thought you were one of them. Indiana: Dad, they come in through the doors.

Harrison Ford

#8. I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was four years old and watched 'Star Search' for the first time. I mean, Harrison Ford in 'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark?' My hero.

Joey Lawrence

#9. At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.

Mitt Romney

#10. I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.

Chad Smith

#11. The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

Wendell Berry

#12. A state that houses the NCAA headquarters. Quite frankly, if Indiana doesn't say that they're going to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, the NCAA needs to move out of Indiana.

Dannel Malloy

#13. I play a character called Lieutenant Delcourt who, in the original comics, pops up from time to time to rescue Tintin. I guess if you've grown up watching movies like 'Jaws' and 'Indiana Jones,' it's pretty surreal to find yourself on set with Steven Spielberg directing you.

Tony Curran

#14. 'The Avengers' is exciting on the level 'The Matrix' or 'Indiana Jones' was when I was kid. I think it will be timeless.

Clark Gregg

#15. At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent.

Liam Neeson

#16. Growing up, we used to watch a lot of 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars' and wear hand-me-down jeans and jumpers. I wasn't really one for dresses.

Kimberley Nixon

#17. Obama doesn't believe in American leadership and the net result is we have a caliphate the size of Indiana.

Jeb Bush

#18. It was an Indian summer afternoon in Indiana, a rare gift. We walked home slowly. I thought Mom might be wrong about me having all I needed, but just at that moment, I had no need to complain.

Haven Kimmel

#19. My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year ... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up ... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all.

Abraham Lincoln

#20. Dan Coats, retiring senator from Indiana, a mild-mannered man, a former United States ambassador to Germany, former congressman, said of Ted Cruz he's the most self-centered, narcissistic, pathological liar I have ever seen.And he said, you can quote me on that.

Mark Shields

#21. There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we'll be on top after all is said and done.

Jason Kidd

#22. I came to Broadway through Indiana University.

Colin Donnell

#23. It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities.

Steve Buyer

#24. Think about what would happen if Indiana Jones and Google Earth had a love child. I use high-resolution and NASA satellites and look for subtle differences on the surface of the earth that locate buried ancient pyramids and towns and ancient tombs, which we then go and excavate.

Sarah Parcak

#25. I never had an imaginary friend, just imaginary circumstances. I was so into the Indiana Jones movies and I would constantly reenact circumstances. I broke my left arm three times, two of which were me trying to be Indiana Jones.

Pedro Pascal

#26. The decided to go exploring, be Indiana Jones they don't have a light they don't have a map you're a screwed with a capital S.

Joe Teti

#27. I've travelled to many states and seen the suffering in people's eyes I've visited communities in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Indiana and Ohio whose manufacturing jobs have literally disappeared. An embarrassment to our country and it's horrible.

Donald Trump

#28. It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.

Alan Garner

#29. When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.

Amy Poehler

#30. Lizzie Barlow stood her ground. She could feel no sympathy for her daughter at the moment. They had to get on that bus to Indiana, and there was no time for the temper-tantrums of a ten-year-old to complicate their already life-threatening situation. "I'm

Samantha Bayarr

#31. I love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.

Evan Bayh

#32. Surely it's better to live in the country, to live on a prairie by a drawing of rivers, in Iowa or Illinois or Indiana, say, than in any city, in any stinking fog of human beings, in any blooming orchard of machines. It ought to be.

William H Gass

#33. Some would ask what country am I from? We ara supposed to tell the truth, [so] we tell them India. Some thought it was Indiana, not India! Some did not know where India is. I said the country next to Pakistan.

Thomas L. Friedman

#34. Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot.

Harrison Ford

#35. Indiana,' he said. 'They steal the land from the Indians and leave the name, yes?

John Green

#36. Going into Indianapolis, playing Indiana, I guess bring it on. It's what we've caught at the end of the year, and we've got to try to make the best of it.

Bo Ryan

#37. I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

Orville Redenbacher

#38. Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.

Jamie Bell

#39. Indiana was such a devout disciple of Shakti that she had once considered taking her name until her father, Blake Jackson, managed to convince her that a Hindu goddess's name was not appropriate for a tall, voluptuous blond American with the looks of an inflatable doll.

Isabel Allende

#40. Ideally, what you would like to have eventually is such a unique and identifiable brand that when someone says 'Indiana State University,' they know exactly what that means. And that takes a long time coming.

Marc Edwards

#41. Indiana is a state that works because conservative principles work every time you put them into practice.

Mike Pence

#42. Omaha, Nebraska. Sac City, Iowa. Alexandria, Indiana. Darwin, Minnesota. Hollywood, California. Alliance, Nebraska.

John Green

#43. Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.

Larry Bucshon

#44. I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie 'Hoosiers.' That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs.

Mary Meeker

#45. What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he's fighting is always slightly tougher than he is, but he just refuses to give up. And that's what makes Indiana Jones a hero: not his superpowers, but his refusal to be beaten.

Neil Cross

#46. When Donald Trump says a distinguished judge born in Indiana can't do his job because of his Mexican heritage, or he mocks a reporter with disabilities, or calls women pigs, it goes against everything we stand for.

Hillary Clinton

#47. His house of cards had collapsed, and he lay among the ruins - but he was free. He felt euphoric, weightless, years younger. The only thing he missed was Indiana, but she too belonged to the past; she too had been carried off by the wind.

Isabel Allende

#48. Indiana is a state dedicated to basketball. Basketball, soybeans, hogs and basketball. Berkeley, needless to say, is not nearly as athletic. Berkeley is dedicated to coffee, angst, potholes and coffee.

Carolyn Jones

#49. 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

#50. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act in Indiana does not give anyone the right to deny services to anyone in this state. It is simply a balancing test used by our federal courts and jurisdictions across the country for more than two decades.

Mike Pence

#51. Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.

Sydney Pollack

#52. When I was a kid in Indiana, we thought it would be fun to get a turkey a year ahead of time and feed it and so on for the following Thanksgiving. But by the time Thanksgiving came around, we sort of thought of the turkey as a pet, so we ate the dog. Only kidding. It was the cat!

David Letterman

#53. If anybody ever shuts you in Indiana ... and you don't at least write some unconstrained something or other, I give up hope for your salvation.

Ezra Pound

#54. In my home state of Indiana, we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes, even while making record investments in education and roads and health care.

Mike Pence

#55. Give us, Lord, a bit o' sun, A bit o' work, and a bit o' fun. Give us all in the struggle and splutter, Our daily bread and a bit o' butter. Origin unknown, submitted by Margie Mode Clarksville, Indiana

Ken Beck

#56. Indiana Jones and the Middle of Fucking Nowhere, coming never to a theater near you.

Mira Grant

#57. Pass the bone, kid pass the bone,
Let's get on this mission like Indiana Jones

GZA

#58. But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.

Lawrence Kasdan

#59. If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana.

William J. Clinton

#60. In Indiana, gays and lesbians can be fired from their jobs with impunity, and in Arkansas, it's the same thing. We need those protective laws to truly have an equal society.

George Takei

#61. ISIS has a caliphate the size of Indiana! Also, US military has been totally gutted. Can't even project power anymore.

Jeb Bush

#62. Indiana taxpayers, retired Hoosier state policemen and teachers are neither greedy speculators nor unpatriotic. They are, however, secured creditors of Chrysler. They deserve to have their funds protected under the full auspices of the law.

Richard Mourdock

#63. I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

Gary Burton

#64. I fell in love with acting at a very young age, when I was 9 years old and started doing community theater. As far as wanting to make a profession out of it, I was about 13 or 14. When I first saw Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", when I saw Harrison Ford, I knew I wanted to be in movies.

Guy Wilson

#65. I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.

John Wooden

#66. Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all.

Ryan Murphy

#67. Indiana Jones. I always knew some day you'd come walking back through my door. I never doubted that. Something made it inevitable.

Marion Raven

#68. I grew up in Indiana. My first four years of elementary were in the gym where Coach Wooden went to high school.

Steve Alford

#69. My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

Hunter Parrish

#70. Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League.

Tony Dungy

#71. 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

#72. Austin had a concussion tonight. That's the way it goes for us. We get one back, we lose one. Or lose two. We've had the most difficult time the last two years just keeping a full roster. Hopefully at some point at the end of the tunnel some good things can happen for the Indiana Pacers.

Jermaine O'Neal

#73. When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'

Mitch Daniels

#74. There are no kinder, more generous, more welcoming, more hospitable people in America than in the 92 counties of Indiana.

Mike Pence

#75. Indiana's governor is coming under fire for a new law that some people feel is anti-gay. The governor now says he is not anti-gay. Then immediately afterwards he said, 'April Fools.' It wasn't his best joke.

Conan O'Brien

#76. My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.

Karen Fairchild

#77. If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Ronald Reagan

#78. I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.

Tia Carrere

#79. Lieutenant Paul T. Funkhouser from Evansville, Indiana, a twenty-three-year-old lawyer yet to practice his trade, led the way aboard his motorcycle. He kept riding back and forth to let the drivers know where to go, and then dashing off to the head of the column.

Stephen L. Harris

#80. Michael Jackson was part of that tremendous wave in the ocean of human expression and it happened to be located first and foremost in Gary, Indiana, working class.

Cornel West

#81. I figured if I was eccentric looking in Indiana, people would think, 'What is he selling? Let's look in his case.'

Ty Warner

#82. The skiing center of the world is southeastern Indiana, where I like to call home. It looks like the Alps there; it's crazy.

Nick Goepper

#83. Whoever decided that Indiana Jones should wear a felt hat and a leather jacket in the jungles should have been shot.

Harrison Ford

#84. Manhattan's probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana's definitely one of the redder states. I have sympathy for both sides.

Jim Gaffigan

#85. I think 'Indiana Jones' was a lot of fun to do because of the places we went to and the adventures and the action. But Han Solo was also a huge part of my life.

Harrison Ford

#86. When your child is seized by an idea with the zeal of a fundamentalist Bible salesman from Indiana, stand in his or her way at your own risk.

Marisha Pessl

#87. 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

#88. Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

Bobby Knight

#89. There is a fertile stretch of flat lands in Indiana where unagarian Eastern travelers, glancing from car windows, shudder and return their eyes to interior upholstery, preferring even the swaying comparisons of a Pullman to the monotony without.

Booth Tarkington

#90. In fact, in Indiana we suspended the Syrian refugee program in the wake of the terrorist attack. We have no higher priority than the safety and security of the people of this country, and Donald Trump is right to articulate that view.

Mike Pence

#91. There is no barrier to Indiana Jones growing older. It's not an age-based character. We can't bang him up as much as we used to, maybe. But I guess I can pretend to have the capacity as well as I pretended before.

Harrison Ford

#92. I will always call Darmstadt, Indiana, home.

Richard Mourdock

#93. Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.

Theresa May

#94. Honestly, I'm not a big movie buff in general. The only movies I own is probably the 'Indiana Jones' trilogy.

Miles Teller

#95. I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

Nathan Gamble

#96. On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access.

Ethan Zuckerman

#97. People in Indiana like to see their politicians at the county fair or the Rotary Club.

Richard Mourdock

#98. Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian
that's the kind of people for me.

Kurt Vonnegut

#99. Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.

James Naismith

#100. Splits just keep us where we are and we can't do that where we are. We don't wanna stay there. We wanna move. I'm sure Indiana is saying the same thing ... Every team in the Big Ten is going to say the same thing. That's the reality of it.

Robbie Wine