Chicago Quotes · Page 18

We hate Chicago and Chicago hates us and unfortunately he's on the other team and he's the big gun.

— T. J. Oshie

Chicago is a world-class culinary center. We need to guard that reputation and status.

— Danny K. Davis

it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

— Jane Smiley

Illinois and Chicago have shown they can compete on the world stage, and we will continue to answer the challenge.

— Mike Quigley

Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today,

— Mikey Welsh

When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.

— Tina Fey

I have fallen in love with Chicago. The community here is loving, supportive, and welcoming.

— Alex Weisman

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

— Studs Terkel

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory…

— George Stigler

It just so happens that I was born and raised in Washington. Had I been born in Chicago or San Antonio, the…

— Edward P. Jones

The great Chicago teams when Tex Winter and Phil Jackson were there - the triangle was just amazing. I know Michael Jordan…

— Mike Budenholzer

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

— Henry Rollins

I left Chicago many years ago to move to California. You can't help but live a healthy lifestyle here if you want…

— James Belushi

“One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the…

— Daniel Amory

There's something specific about Chicagoans, and I just felt like I'd love to tell their story in a creative way. Not in…

— Lena Waithe

People in L.A. think I'm insane to go back to Chicago during the winter. It's because I love my apartment and fleece…

— Tanya Saracho

CM has always stood for one thing: Chicago Made. Chick Magnet? That’s preposterous. Girls don’t like me. I was born and raised…

— CM Punk

Chicago theater vs. New York theater. There's just nothing to say about it really. If you've seen Chicago theater, you know that…

— Terry Kinney

Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere…

— William L. Shirer

I got traded in the middle of an injury - my ankle injury - so in '09, I came back and just…

— Jake Peavy

It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to…

— B. C. Forbes

People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no…

— Duane Michals

It is still the arena of those who dream of the City of Man and those who envision a City of Things.…

— Studs Terkel

We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge. Revolutions in technology and communication have…

— Barack Obama

If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.

— Steven Yeun

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

— Jack Steinberger

When I started doing improv in Chicago, for every five teams, one or two would have one woman.

— Matt Walsh

If there was a Mount Rushmore for pro wrestling cities, Chicago and New York would be on there.

— Jim Ross

My adult life, I grew up in Chicago. When I go back there, I always have fond memories.

— B. J. Armstrong

I have a dialogue coach who helps me out with some of the more tricky Chicago vowel sounds.

— Sonya Walger

My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.

— Donald Johanson

My uncle was a cop, a career cop, on the beat in downtown Chicago. He was my hero when I was growing…

— Mike Pence

Chicago is like a New York City. It's one of the those older cities. It really means something to fight there.

— Rashad Evans

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

— James Cronin

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

— Bethany McLean

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 grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!

— David Hasselhoff

I know what it was like to grow up in Chicago and see the same problems every day.

— Jabari Parker

San Antonio drives me crazy, but Chicago drives me crazy in a different way.

— Sandra Cisneros

I remember Chicago well. That's where I started in radio in 1930 and it snowed a lot that year, too.

— Gene Autry