Seattle Quotes

131 quotes by 95 authors

Seattle is this curious liberal island. — Jonathan Raban
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant… — Douglass North
Seattleâ€™s Moraine not only make Washington State proud, but also the whole American progressive music scene joyful. ... Itâ€™s simply an impressive dead on eleven… — Unknown Author
I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very… — Anna Faris
A Seattle lawyer once interrupted his lengthy cross-examination of a witness and exclaimed, "Your Honor, one of the jurors is asleep." "You put him to… — James Keller
And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city. — Krist Novoselic
If a chairman of a company visits Seattle, that chairman should take all the staff out in the evening and have a few drinks together,… — Richard Branson
I wasnâ€™t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a… — Kurt Cobain
I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle. — Dorothy Malone
When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now… — Jeff Ament
I thought Denver and Seattle was a big game but Houston and Dallas is the kind of game that as players, we want to play… — Sterling Sharpe
It's still fun to come to games, and it's still fun to be in the Seattle crowd. — Steve Largent
I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University. — George Stigler
Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are… — Jonathan Raban
Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in tune with the… — Joseph Campbell
The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier. — Jonathan Raban
By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you… — Jonathan Raban
Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to… — Jonathan Raban
Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free… — Jonathan Raban
Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central… — Jonathan Raban

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