Chicago Quotes · Page 12

I love Chicago, I love the coaches here and I love the guys here.

— Michael Carter-Williams

I actually think I learned to write concisely working for an encyclopedia company in Chicago.

— Robert Christgau

“Berlusconi is us,” as Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago puts it.”

— John Micklethwait

“If there are any curses left in baseball, they are all on the north side of Chicago.”

— Tucker Elliot

I am proud to support the incredible economics department at the University of Chicago.

— Kenneth C. Griffin

“Really, nobody was there?” I asked. “Well, nobody important,” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.”

— Daniel Amory

I know Chicago cops. They're tough. They have to be. The whole city would explode. It's like a bomb, Chicago.

— Lee Marvin

Chicago was a good place for me. Maybe New York will be better.

— Charles Oakley

17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael…

— Bob Costas

I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate…

— Ted Allen

Imagine a doctor in Chicago doing an operation for someone in Taiwan using robotic surgery. You want the doctor to feel immediate…

— Rajeev Suri

Making ziti for the Chicago Fire Department! I hope they're not too busy today, but this should fill their bellies I hope…

— Lady Gaga

It happened again this week. Hundreds of people had to be evacuated from O'Hare Airport in Chicago. Seems every time somebody went…

— Jay Leno

I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the…

— Dennis Eckersley

Chicago is a big town for magicians and card hustlers. So when I was very young, a fellow sat me down and…

— Harry Anderson

While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents…

— Douglas Wood

“She had been invited to dinners and luncheons and dances, but their doings, she told Dirk, had bored her. “They’re nice,” she…

— Edna Ferber

George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other…

— Robert Kuttner

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl…

— Marlee Matlin

When I was training for the Chicago Marathon, I would eat a cup of cereal after an 18-mile long run, and then…

— Summer Sanders

I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style,…

— Saul Bellow

“King had marched six weeks earlier through the Mississippi town where the civil rights workers Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner were murdered. He…

— Rick Perlstein

“And as if by magic - and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and…

— Gene Wolfe

Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Jim McMahon: A great natural leader. Great ability. Great presence. For a…

— LaVell Edwards

Chicago has quickly become one of my favorite places in the world.

— Miranda Rae Mayo

I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody's cool on the block.

— Craig Robinson

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

— Ben Hecht

I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago.

— Melvin Van Peebles

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

— Grover Cleveland

I grew up in Chicago, so hip-hop has always been a part of my life.

— Gina Rodriguez

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

— Joe Keery

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

— Greg Evigan

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

— King Von

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

— Dennis Farina

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

— Jamey Sheridan

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

— George Levy

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

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

— Michael Wilbon

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

— Richard M. Daley