Quotes About Iowa City

#1. Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean.

Elin Hilderbrand

#2. So I've come to Chicago to have a drink," he said. "I'm living in Iowa City for now. Have you ever been to Iowa City?" "I

Ann Patchett

#3. Lucas was starting to feel like a yo-yo, and Iowa City was the finger.

John Sandford

#4. I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.

Chelsea Cain

#5. When I say that I went to grad school in Iowa City, people often assume that I went to the famed writers' workshop MFA program at the University of Iowa. I didn't. I got a master's in journalism.

Chelsea Cain

#6. If you grow corn or trade in pigs or write poetry then you go to Iowa City." "That's why I haven't been.

Ann Patchett

#7. Don't ever die, Juan Diego had written to Brother Pepe from Iowa City. What Juan Diego meant was that HE would die if he lost Pepe.

John Irving

#8. You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta that suddenly I could be a new person ... What America offers me is romanticism and hope ... Suddenly, I found myself in a country where

Bharati Mukherjee

#9. I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.

Chelsea Cain

#10. The objective of the Classical Art of Riding is to train the horse not only to be brilliant in the movements and the exercises of the High School but also to be quiet, supple and obedient and by his smooth movements to make riding a true pleasure

Alois Podhajsky

#11. I lived in a small city on the Mississippi River across from Iowa, so I didn't have a country upbringing, but in high school we would go drink kegs in cornfields.

Lissie

#12. In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

Karrine Steffans

#13. Goal setting is commonsense; you don't waste fuel traveling for miles to an imaginary destination.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

Guillermo Del Toro

#15. John Kerry was the big winner in Iowa. Ted Kennedy introduced Kerry as the 'comeback kid.' That used to be Bill Clinton's name - because every time he would come back to a city, he would find out if he had a kid or not.

Jay Leno

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

John Green

#17. Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could.

Meredith Willson

#18. 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

#19. A lot of the things that we passed in the energy policy were embedded in law, and they resulted in tremendous reductions in waste of energy in all kinds of things.

Jimmy Carter

#20. He (Marilyn Manson) has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

Alice Cooper

#21. No, white women like to keep their hands clean. They got a shiny little set a tools they use, sharp as witches' fingernails, tidy and laid out neat, like the picks on a dentist tray. They gonna take they time with em.

Kathryn Stockett

#22. Everybody's somebody's everything

Chance The Rapper

#23. I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun. But I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

John Darnielle

#24. Maybe "Bible Belt" refers not so much to the popularity of the Good Book in these parts, but to the biblical-plague level of insects.

Paul Jury

#25. Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

Henry Ward Beecher