Midwest Quotes

Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it.

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I cant enjoy anything.

Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there like the dare of a cat.

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.

Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.

When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.

There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.

I was born in the Midwest, where "salad" was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.

I don't live in Hollywood. I don't have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don't pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world.

There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.

Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest.

Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.

We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest.

I've tried and failed a lot. But I've also tried to be really clear about my brand. It is who I am. I'm a mum, I'm a wife, I'm 44 and from the Midwest.

I'm still in the Midwest, but I'm in Columbus, Ohio, so I'm three and a half hours away from everybody. That's one of the reasons we're not as active as we'd like to be - it's an expensive chore for me to go down there just to talk or something.

Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.

I always knew I was going to leave the Midwest but didn't really know how the opportunity would present itself. When it happened, I was like, "Yes, okay right now, I'm coming. Goodbye!"

I lived in a tiny Midwest town, so I was always looking for adventure.

It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.

Look the, the American worker has been losing - for decades now. We've seen manufacturing in decline here in the industrial Midwest.

Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats.

I want to rob a bank so much - and I'm from the Midwest, so we have like one bank, no security cameras, and so I designed this thing.

I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.

The thing I don't like about L.A. is that it's very industry-focused. That's not bad for kids. It's not hedonistic or anything, not any more shallow than anybody in the Midwest. It's not that.

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

Friends in the Midwest often ask me what it's like to raise a family in Los Angeles. I say it's just like where they are, but warmer and with more traffic. I also tell them people here seem a bit more tolerant of those who are different.

I left the Midwest thinking I didn't fit in. But when I got to New York, I realized how truly Midwestern I was.

Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.

The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.

There is something about Midwest in general, that has kind of an underdog quality.

I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.

I'm a Scandinavian Midwest girl who doesn't always know what's going on in herself emotionally, which is why I make music in order to figure it out.

Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.

The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?