Chicago famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
-- A. J. Liebling -
They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire.
-- Al Capone -
Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.
-- Amaury Nolasco -
I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.
-- America Ferrera -
I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through.
-- America Ferrera -
I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.
-- Ana Castillo -
Remember, no matter how hard your life is right now, it would be worse if a song by Chicago was playing.
-- Andy Borowitz -
It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.
-- Bailey Chase -
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
-- Ben Hecht -
No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.
-- Bethany McLean -
Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.
-- Bill Ayers -
First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.
-- Bill Kurtis -
I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.
-- Bill Lipinski -
Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.
-- Bill Murray -
Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.
-- Bill Rancic -
Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
-- Billy Eckstine -
I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage.
-- Billy Gardell -
I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.
-- Bob Balaban -
I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though youre poking fun at someone or something, theres still an affection for it.
-- Bob Newhart -
When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.
-- Buddy Guy -
I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
-- Candace Bushnell -
I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.
-- Charles Comiskey -
Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?
-- Charles Horton Cooley -
Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
-- Claes Oldenburg -
I am in the Chicago Carpenters Union. They are huge supporters of mine and of MMA.
-- Clay Guida -
Gorgeous day here in Chicago. Sure is better than Canada.
-- CM Punk -
Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.
-- Colleen Atwood -
I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.
-- Colleen Atwood -
I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!
-- David Hasselhoff -
Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.
-- Dennis Franz -
We have not really advertised Chicago internationally.
-- Desiree Rogers -
Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not an emotional relationship.
-- Diane Nash -
I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.
-- Don Cornelius -
I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.
-- Dwyane Wade -
I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. Im just not a cold weather person.
-- Emily Robison -
I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.
-- Emmylou Harris -
The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.
-- Eric Lefkofsky -
I think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago.
-- Eric Zorn -
I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.
-- Erik Larson -
Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world
-- Erik Larson -
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
-- Eugene V. Debs -
But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?
-- Fisher Stevens -
I have defended the interests of France at the G8 in Washington; afterwards I was at Chicago to announce the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan; I have participated in two European summits, so I have fully respected the engagements I made to the French.
-- Francois Hollande -
Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
-- Frank Gehry -
I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.
-- Gary Cole -
A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.
-- George Barr McCutcheon -
I grew up in Chicago on the South Side, and had a ton of freedom, just did whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. At the risk of sounding dopey, I would say it was blissful.
-- George Saunders -
I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.
-- George Stigler -
Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.
-- George Stigler -
My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.
-- George Stigler -
In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.
-- George Stigler -
Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride.
-- Giuliana Rancic -
If you want to talk about EDM, let’s talk about Detroit underground music, Chicago house and let’s talk about all the things that got us to this place. We all get on the train of dance music. We need to all respectfully look through the carriages that have come before us and realize how we got here.
-- Goldie -
I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn.
-- Greg Evigan -
If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.
-- Grover Cleveland -
In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.
-- Hannibal Buress -
Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago, and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
-- Harold Ramis -
Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.
-- Harold Washington -
I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago.
-- Harold Washington -
Someday the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series
-- Harry Caray -
I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.
-- Harvey Korman -
You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.
-- Helmut Jahn -
My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.
-- Henry Taube -
There's only one thing for Chicago to do, and that's to move to a better neighborhood.
-- Herman Fetzer -
If we trace origins of anarchism in the United States, then probably Henry David Thoreau is the closest you can come to an early American anarchist. You do not really encounter anarchism until after the Civil War, when you have European anarchists, especially German anarchists, coming to the United States. They actually begin to organize. The first time that anarchism has an organized force and becomes publicly known in the United States is in Chicago at the time of Haymarket Affair.
-- Howard Zinn -
I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
-- Ian Anderson -
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
-- Ishmael Reed -
I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
-- Jack Steinberger -
In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
-- Jack Steinberger -
I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.
-- Jake M. Johnson -
I like pizza and I like cheeseburgers a lot and I like Chicago food a lot.
-- Jake M. Johnson -
Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.
-- James Belushi -
The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.
-- James Young -
Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.
-- Jane Byrne -
I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.
-- Jane Byrne -
In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.
-- Jane Byrne -
The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.
-- Jane Byrne -
Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
-- Jane Byrne -
Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.
-- Jane Byrne -
Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.
-- Jane Byrne -
The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.
-- Jane Byrne -
The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.
-- Jared Diamond -
[On boxing] [For] The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.
-- Jennifer Beals -
I did see 'Les Miz' and I thought it was just incredible. Totally incredible. I love 'Chicago,' too.
-- Jennifer Love Hewitt -
I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.
-- Jeremy Piven -
That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.
-- Jerry Della Femina -
Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.
-- Jesse Spencer -
Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly.
-- Jessica Mitford -
I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it.
-- Joan Cusack -
Going back to California is not like going back to Vermont, or Chicago; Vermont and Chicago are relative constants, against which one measures one's own change. All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears.
-- Joan Didion -
The Chicago Cubs are like Rush Street-a lot of singles, but no action.
-- Joe Garagiola -
I would love the opportunity to work in Chicago. It would be like a dream come true, if I could work there on something like the way ER was filmed.
-- Joe Lando -
Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.
-- John Belushi
