Chicago Quotes · Page 58

Chicago - it's a mini-New York.

— Kristin Chenoweth

My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved…

— Kim Basinger

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.

— Dennis Franz

I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago…

— Ted Nugent

Chicago is not a very fashion-driven place. Nobody says, 'Oh, you've got to come see these fabulous people!' Nobody cares.

— Mike Nichols

They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were…

— Jerome Isaac Friedman

“Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in…

— Daniel Amory

Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon,…

— Barack Obama

I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into 'Second City.' When I moved to Chicago,…

— Steve Carell

Why did the people think [Vietnam war] was fundamentally wrong and immoral? The guys who ran the polls, John E. Rielly, a…

— Noam Chomsky

I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on…

— Bernie Mac

It's a tough town, it's a loving town, it's a supportive town, and that's why so many great news people, journalists have…

— Tamron Hall

I would say New York, Chicago, Memphis, and Los Angeles were my favorites.

— Jimmy Page

I knew I wanted to be an actor for a long time, but I was based out of Chicago and then I…

— Anonymous

There are almost no beautiful cities in America, though there are many beautiful parts of cities, and some sections that are glorious…

— Noel Perrin

First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from…

— Bill Kurtis

I keep in touch with all the guys that I was training with in Chicago during the pre-draft process; Nik Stauskas, Mitch…

— Joe Harris

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

— Eugene V. Debs

For over 20 years, I have been saying that Chicago is by far one of the greatest food cities in the world.

— Charlie Trotter

My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city…

— Mike Krzyzewski

One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.

— Abigail Washburn

People always go, 'Damn, how you got all this happening at once?' I tell them it's the Chicago in me.

— Lena Waithe

“That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street’s burn.”

— Daniel Amory

I remember, when we started 'Leverage,' we were all in Chicago, and I read the script for the pilot and thought, 'Boy,…

— Timothy Hutton

I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated…

— Richard M. Daley