The Midwest Quotes

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. — Jim Gaffigan

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

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

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

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child. — Suzanne Farrell

I've completely embraced life in Florida after growing up in the Midwest. This is home for me. — Robin Zander

'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind. — Nancy Travis

I love the Midwest accent. — Lucy Punch

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. — Angie Everhart

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

The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres. — Chuck Inglish

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

I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact. — Scott Walker

Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives. — Natasha Leggero

I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter. — Jami Attenberg

There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to be done. — Shelley Fabares

Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy. — Robert Gottlieb

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

I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me. — Edward Hirsch

WINTERS WERE TOUGH in the Midwest, then and now. I never liked winter. And I hate snow. It's white, but it darkens your heart. — Clara Cannucciari

I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death. — Len Cariou

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it. — P. J. O'Rourke

In the Midwest, if you show up to a college town on a weekend, you risk running into a football game. — Jim Butcher

I'm from the Midwest. — Craig Kilborn

You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy. — Joe Lando

This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered. — Jim McKelvey

Like most people in the Midwest, Embryo doesn't believe in humor, especially when it pertains to sensitive subjects. — Jennifer Niven

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

No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so literature is beyond my abilities. — Stella Atrium

After decades away from the Midwest, she'd forgotten that bewildering generosity was a common regional tic. — J. Ryan Stradal

Welcome to the Midwest, Mom used to say. Where the weather keeps you guessing and you're almost always sure to hate it. — Jennifer Brown

White Castle has a unique position in the Midwest. It is a cult brand that has developed a strong, loyal following. — Ron Paul

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. — Dave Eggers

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit. — Tom Brokaw

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

Midwest Radio would like to extend their sympathies to the families and loved ones of the dead — Mike McCormack

That, and the untended mental health problems. We have all these insane armed hobos coming from the Midwest, usually Ohio. Fuck Ohio. — Tim Dorsey

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest. — Douglas Wilson

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. — Andrew Rannells

I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic. — Jim Gaffigan

I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris. — Chris Van Allsburg

Headless guys and gals Not loving the Midwest vibe Oh, look - a cheese ghost GEE, — Rick Riordan

any city or town in the Upper Midwest that's known more for what it used to make than what it makes now. — Anne Trubek

I never seem to get past - I feel like a stupid guy from the Midwest. — Alex Graves

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

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

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent. — Jeremy Piven

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

I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my culture. — Rob Lowe

The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho. — Harmon Killebrew

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold. — Ajay Naidu

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother. — Charley Pride

Damn. It's still the Midwest around here, no matter how many open-minded people you surround yourself with. — Angela Johnson

Well I grew up in the Midwest, and I think the first film that blew my mind was 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' — Joseph Kosinski

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression. — Paul Rust

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. — Jonathan Groff

I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since. — Mona Simpson

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

You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard. — Dean Norris

Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons or the Beverly Hillbillies. — Kent Haruf

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. — Lara Flynn Boyle

I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I can't enjoy anything. — Kyle Kinane

I lived five years in the Midwest, and I loved it. The people were so nice. The people were so open. — John Irving

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are. — Jami Attenberg

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

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa. — Richard Powers

I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong. — Alan Arkin

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. — Lee Iacocca

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. — Charles Baxter