Chicago Quotes · Page 14

My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.

— Shelley Berman

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

— Dennis Farina

“The situation was fast approaching that of 1863, when Chicago doctors labeled the prison an extermination camp.”

— George Levy

With 'Chicago Hope,' I'm seeing if anyone will like me again.

— Jamey Sheridan

I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn.

— Greg Evigan

A lot of people don't expect people to live in Chicago. But Chicago is a sick city.

— Joe Keery

Nah, I see Chicago often. I go out there, so nah, I don't miss it.

— King Von

Only in Chicago do they care more about who the mayor is than who's president.

— Mike Quigley

That has to come to an end and end now. No citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of Chicago. If…

— Chris Hayes

Chicago, I feel, is a microcosm for the segregated, violent environment that is America. I try to not only speak about these…

— Vic Mensa

In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A.,…

— Aasif Mandvi

'The Devil in the White City' - the 'White City' was the nickname for the World's Fair of 1893, the World's Columbian…

— Erik Larson

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in…

— Sara Paretsky

I'm a huge fan of Chicago sports and Chicago food, and I love going home and my family is still there. I…

— Matt Walsh

If Ohio was a food, it would be Benadryl. If Chicago was pizza, Ohio is Benadryl, or some sort of generic over-the-counter.

— Patti Harrison

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be…

— Alvin Dark

The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction.…

— Charles Frazier

I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where…

— Conor Oberst

London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New…

— James Geary

It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small…

— Francois Mauriac

Sometimes I do feel hopeless when I look out and scream out through my music, and I scream out through these interviews,…

— Lupe Fiasco

Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector…

— Jim Butcher

Look at Mexico. Many, many factories, many plants. Nabisco's now moving to Mexico, their big Chicago plant. You look at Ford is…

— Donald Trump

The thing I learned is that the work is getting done by people who dig in and work on a particular project:…

— Robert Hass

Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.

— Will Rogers

Chicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome.

— Chance the Rapper

A five-year shelf life in Chicago is almost equivalent to five to 10 somewhere else.

— Joe Maddon

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

— George Stigler

Investing in Chicago property is just Wandas first move into the U.S. real estate market.

— Wang Jianlin

I don't think the people in Chicago really knew exactly who I was in the seven years I was there.

— Toni Kukoc

I know I'm being biased about Chicago, but I think Chicago got the most talented people in the world.

— Lil Rel Howery

I'm from Chicago and that's where I created all of my most prized possesions, which are my songs.

— Vic Mensa

So many times, shows say they're set somewhere - like in Chicago, 'The Good Wife' - but it doesn't feel like Chicago.

— Tanya Saracho

I'll always be a Chicago Bear no matter where I end up or where I retire, whatever happens.

— Brian Urlacher

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

— Carl Sandburg

It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago.

— Richard M. Daley

There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.

— Michael Wilbon

I love Chicago. I got on a bus and asked the driver, Do you go to the Loop? He said, No, I…

— Joey Bishop

I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.

— Gary Sinise

Remember, no matter how hard your life is right now, it would be worse if a song by Chicago was playing.

— Andy Borowitz