Chicago Quotes · Page 30

Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

— Lincoln Steffens

I remember a case where I was associate attorney general where 720 dead people voted in Chicago in the 1982 election. I…

— Rudy Giuliani

Fifty-thousand were gathered (March,27th,1933) in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco,…

— Edwin Black

Cody Rhodes and The Young Bucks had never done a show on television, yet they were able to draw a show with…

— Tony Khan

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

— Craig Robinson

I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a working class community. There were no miracles in my life, there's…

— Michelle Obama

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

— Marlee Matlin

My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.

— Shelley Berman

You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.

— Ahmet Ertegun

I was the music director at a dinner theater called the 'Pheasant Run Theater' in the suburbs of Chicago, and that was…

— Sean Hayes

It's not a question that people have a very negative image of Chicago. They just don't think about it.

— Desiree Rogers

“An artist, he paints with lakes and wooded slopes, with lawns and banks and forest-covered hills." — Daniel Burnham talking about Frederick…

— Erik Larson

I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.

— Bill Lipinski

“Don’t you think most of those kids think too much about who got an A or a B when they were in…

— Daniel Amory

Only in Chicago do they care more about who the mayor is than who's president.

— Mike Quigley

I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've…

— Michael Rosenbaum

[ William Ayers] is an example of what I'm talking about. This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a…

— Barack Obama

“The neighborhood-towns were part of larger ethnic states. To the north of the Loop was Germany. To the northwest was Poland. To…

— Mike Royko

After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy…

— Tina Fey

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

— Matt Skiba

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

— Shanola Hampton

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

I got that first record out, it came out in '47... Then my name began to ring around. I began to take…

— Muddy Waters

“Think of Chicago as a piece of music, perhaps,” he continued. “In it you can hear the thousands of years of people…

— Brian Doyle

The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution.…

— Roger Lewin