Chicago Quotes · Page 18

Apart from playing Billy Flynn in 'Chicago' in the West End, Ive not done much acting.

— Tony Hadley

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

— Jane Byrne

When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

— Diablo Cody

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

— H. L. Mencken

I would jump off the Willis Tower, which is the tallest building in Chicago, to support Hillary Clinton.

— Danny K. Davis

Part of our history includes the long struggle to pass the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance.

— Fred Eychaner

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

— Eugene V. Debs

Chicago's where I started my career. I've had a lot of success playing here.

— Scottie Pippen

Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?

— Charles Horton Cooley

I've always been a massive Kanye West fan, and always thought in my head that if I could live anywhere it would…

— Julianna Pena

You can't not be into basketball and grow up in Chicago or live in L.A., because people are so fanatical about the…

— Virginia Madsen

Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews,…

— Bill Rancic

I’m a suburbanite nowIn L.A. you have to be so careful about what you say and who you trust. It’s such an…

— Kristin Cavallari

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things…

— Gordon Parks

That first replica of the Globe that I saw at the Chicago World's Fair was a suspect thing, made of plywood and…

— Sam Wanamaker

A cousin of mine was a graphic designer, and he took me as a kid to see Flesh for Lulu and Social…

— Matt Skiba

And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's…

— Robert Scheer

Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina.…

— Steve Harvey

I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as…

— Joan Cusack

Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J.…

— Ike Barinholtz

The press box at Wrigley Field in Chicago is an extended narrow shed, two rows deep, that is precariously bolted to the…

— Roger Angell

I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in…

— Johnny Galecki

My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I'm a wizard. I work out of an…

— Jim Butcher

I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career…

— Ron Santo

You don't know how it would have turned out if [kids] would grown up in Chicago instead, and a more normal environment.

— Barack Obama

The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by…

— Anonymous

“The city divided by the river is further divided by racial and lingual differences.”

— Nelson Algren

I have a lot of fond memories of St. Patrick's Day in Chicago. Vague, but fond.

— Joel Murray

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

— Daniel Clowes

I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.

— Jeremy Piven

We try to rehabilitate most people, but if you have set fire to Chicago, we probably won't attempt to rehabilitate you.

— Bryan Hilferty

Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.

— Harold Washington

Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.

— Jane Byrne

We lived in Chicago, but the music we were inspired by was from D. C.

— Fred Armisen

ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

— J. B. Pritzker

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

— Jane Byrne

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

— Wang Jianlin

You have to diet before you even go to shoot in Chicago because we just eat the entire time.

— Shanola Hampton

I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.

— Sandra Cisneros

I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states.

— Raquel Welch