Chicago Quotes · Page 15

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

— Matt Walsh

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

— Jack Steinberger

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

— Steven Yeun

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

— Studs Terkel

What an incredibly beautiful city at night Chicago is. Absolutely beautiful.

— Nik Wallenda

Afghanistan is not like what's happening in Chicago. People are being shot left and right.

— Donald Trump

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

— Susan Glaspell

I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.

— Common

“Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning...proud to…

— Carl Sandburg

Chicago is fun. We've spent a lot of time there, about 15 years. My wife's parents and family live in Chicago, so…

— Luke Donald

I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do…

— Frank Rich

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up -…

— Jerry Saltz

My mother died of ovarian cancer; I support organizations that raise awareness of this silent killer. Women's shelters - Jenesse Center in…

— Regina Taylor

While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership,…

— Rahm Emanuel

What brought me to L.A. was work! I moved to Chicago after college - I went to Kalamazoo - did my nerd…

— Steven Yeun

My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and…

— Emil Ferris

Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where…

— Richard M. Daley

Kobe was hell-bent on surpassing Jordan as the greatest player in the game. His obsession with Michael was striking. When we played…

— Phil Jackson

Whenever I was flying commercial, I would land in Chicago, and they would announce, 'Get your passports out.' It happened so often,…

— Shahid Khan

I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually…

— Michael Rooker

“I met Ana doing free weights,” Roger said. “This hard-body señorita was putting me to shame on squats, and I asked her…

— Jennifer Lane

It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably it was…

— Jacob Ruppert

Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis…

— John Green

Look, there's no question that we have a challenge with gun violence. But there's a lot more nuanced parts of that narrative,…

— Lori Lightfoot

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

— Jane Smiley

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

— Danny K. Davis

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

— T. J. Oshie

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

— Jabari Parker

The Chicago Cubs are like Rush Street-a lot of singles, but no action.

— Joe Garagiola

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

— Gene Autry

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

— Sandra Cisneros

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

— Donald Johanson

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

— Sonya Walger

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

— B. J. Armstrong

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

— Jim Ross

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

— David Hasselhoff

When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.

— Buddy Guy

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

— Bethany McLean

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