University Of Iowa Sayings

#1. For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

Elin Hilderbrand

#2. Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

James Van Allen

#3. 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

#4. (Researchers at the University of Iowa have for years been studying a woman, known in the literature as S.M., whose amygdala was destroyed by a rare disease - and who cannot, as a consequence, experience fear.)

Scott Stossel

#5. I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

John Dalton

#6. Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove.

Stevie Wonder

#7. Star light, star bright,
The first star I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.

Alan Moore

#8. People who work themselves to the bone and when they produce young they preach to the young the gospel of work - which is nothing, at bottom, but the doctrine of inertia.

Henry Miller

#9. The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation.

E. O. Wilson

#10. The early 1990s was a time of great advancements in precooked bacon technology. Pork producers, food labs, and agricultural schools such as Iowa State University began investing substantially in precooked R&D.

David Sax

#11. you only live once ... if you're lucky.

Mike Bozart

#12. Everything about Jocelyn had been ordinary. A Norman Rockwell painting of mom, dad, one boy, one girl. Scott was her wild storm, her great American novel, her epic story. Every extraordinary moment she experienced was because of him.

Jessica Shook

#13. Tell me, priest,' I ordered, 'or I'll cut you open right here, and your followers can try to pray you back together.

Leigh Bardugo

#14. On that night the sky laid bare its internal construction in many sections which, like quasi-anatomical exhibits, showed the spirals and whorls of light, the pale-green solids of darkness, the plasma of space, the tissue of dreams.

Bruno Schulz

#15. Inequality was the unalterable law of human life.

George Orwell

#16. There a series of Catholic rituals and teachings had offered her young life a coherent universe. By 1946, Savannah had for O'Connor ceded to the university world of Iowa, where new influences, including intellectual joys, brought with them questions and skepticism.

Flannery O'Connor

#17. I bought a Ferrari ... and then sold it after a couple of months.

Andy Murray