Chicago Quotes · Page 10

Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

— John Malkovich

He [Barak Obama]'s a guy from Chicago. He doesn't know what the hell to do. He's got a big pipe with a…

— Bill O'Reilly

Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.

— Barack Obama

The famous business is crazy. But if you can handle the streets of Chicago, you probably can handle any place.

— Deon Cole

That was a huge part of my training, doing improv in Chicago.

— Vanessa Bayer

I learned that Chicago lunches are terrible. If I was a Chicago student, I would ask my mom to pack a lunch.

— Mike Quigley

There's only one thing for Chicago to do, and that's to move to a better neighborhood.

— Herman Fetzer

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

— Georg Solti

I'm not really looking forward to wearing a black rubber suit in the summertime in humid Chicago. If you see a pool…

— Christian Bale

You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the…

— David Mamet

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Yes, William E. Dodd was the - became the - America's first ambassador to Nazi Germany. Prior to that, he was a…

— Erik Larson

I was born out west but later on I migrated to the east side of Chicago. That's where my roots are at.…

— King Louie

Chicago made me. They can treat me however they want to treat me anywhere else in the country. When I go back…

— Lil Rel Howery

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of…

— Henry Taube

“I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers; I remember all you forget. I will die as many times as you…

— Carl Sandburg

I do some freelance web design stuff. I taught a directing class for this not-for-profit organization here in Chicago a couple months…

— Joe Swanberg

You go to Los Angeles or New York or Miami or Chicago, and you see Latinos everywhere; they are involved in every…

— Thalia

It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of…

— Chance the Rapper

Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people…

— Rush Limbaugh

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later…

— George Stigler

“Chicago's Loop is a few acres of skyscrapers encircled by elevated train tracks like an iron wedding ring on the upthrust hand…

— Howard Browne

The way that house music has become so white and so sanitized over the decades and the fact it's still going on,…

— Paul Weller

I surely remember being in the administration building sitting in long sleepless nights and working with young people to do the right…

— Bernie Sanders

I'd like to stay in Chicago, but if they don't want me, somebody will.

— Jake Arrieta

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

— Joan Cusack

My wife and I lived in Chicago for two months, and we went to a lot of great restaurants.

— Frank Vincent

I don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers.

— Gene Weingarten

“Sure, I flip people off in traffic on occasion, but that’s just Chicago.”

— Blake Crouch

It feels great to have the chance to play with the Chicago Bulls.

— Toni Kukoc

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

— Edward Hirsch

I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.

— Bob Dylan

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

— Edward Hirsch

When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues.

— Elizabeth Berg

It really wasn't about picking Chicago. I feel like Chicago picked me.

— Alex Weisman

I'm from a really little town called Quincy, five hours southwest of Chicago.

— Jonathan Van Ness

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

— Mary Schmich

I played for Marinelli I think my last four, five years in Chicago. He's awesome.

— Brian Urlacher

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

— Brian Griese

In Chicago, we have a century-old transit system that desperately needs updates to keep up with increased capacity.

— Mike Quigley