Chicago Quotes

592 Chicago quotes by 417 unique authors

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love… — Carmen Electra
The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction. The radio stations… — Charles Frazier
A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse… — Bernard Goldberg
I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I… — Billy Gardell
I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports… — Johnny Galecki
When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where… — Nelsan Ellis
I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a… — America Ferrera
I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I… — America Ferrera
On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries. — Elvis Presley
Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago. — Philip Jose Farmer
I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history… — Matt Cameron
It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in… — Alice Hamilton
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957. — Vernon Jordan
May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at… — William Kunstler
First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and… — Bill Kurtis
I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago. — Harvey Korman
I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day. — R. Kelly
Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name. — Tom Waits
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. — David Mamet
To have a strong community of people who believe in your potential can make all the difference in the world. So many people have invested… — Derrick Rose
The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one. — Steven Levitt
The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I… — William Jackson
I like pizza and I like cheeseburgers a lot and I like Chicago food a lot. — Jake M. Johnson
I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy… — Jake M. Johnson
I knew I wanted to be an actor for a long time, but I was based out of Chicago and then I went to New… — Jake M. Johnson

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