Chicago Quotes

592 Chicago quotes by 417 unique authors

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest. — Henny Youngman
... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you. — Nelson Algren
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was… — John Jakes
And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads… — Carl Sandburg
I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make… — Saul Bellow
It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had… — Erik Larson
Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the… — Barack Obama
Dear Bill (O'Reilly)...I am concerned that you have been losing touch with reality recently. Did you really say you are more powerful than any politician?… — Roger Ebert
I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold. — Erik Larson
I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where… — Joan Didion
Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. — Neil Gaiman
We're in the Chicago suburbs, ruling our 'hood and the streets that lead here. It's a street war, where other suburban gangs fight us for… — Simone Elkeles
Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break. — Barack Obama
I did not say anything. I was always embarresed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them,… — Ernest Hemingway
Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii… — Jim Butcher
When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir. — Tina Fey
My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since there was that… — Jim Butcher
Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman… — Pat Conroy
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in… — Kurt Vonnegut
Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl… — Neil Gaiman
My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I'm a wizard. I work out of an office in midtown… — Jim Butcher
George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences, sociology,… — Robert Kuttner
My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago. — George Gobel
I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on… — Fred Allen
One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world. — Abigail Washburn

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