Chicago Quote by Hunter S. Thompson

“I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. The other places don’t count. Having seen it, I…

— Rudyard Kipling

“I walk the city, through its crush of people and its smells: body odour, rotting food, vomit and urine. A cocktail of oppression and…

— Emma Cameron

“But never, among all the cities I have wandered over the years, cities all over the earth, did I feel and smell and sense…

— Brian Doyle

“Chicago does not go to the world, the world comes to Chicago! Who needs New York? Who has taller buildings than our tall buildings?…

— Peter Orner

An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.

— Karen Abbott

“So that Chicago, with shipping and steel and livestock, came to think of itself as a burly city, tough and muscular, with rough-and-tumble football…

— Brian Doyle

Anybody who has been to Chicago has a very positive view. But not everybody has come to Chicago, and in many ways, Chicago is…

— Ivo Daalder

“The city is built on an inhuman scale. Everything is by design inconvenient for Homo sapiens.”

— Andrew Meier

“The great city seemed to weigh upon me, as though it were crushing me under its heap of brick and stone. Gray, drizzly skies,…

— Gary Inbinder

“Dwelling over this loss while wandering down Central Park West somewhere around Seventy-sixth, Seventy-fifth, it strikes me profoundly that the world is more often…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“This was London, in all its filth and glory. Nostalgic for the past, while yearning to cast off the chains of bygone ages and…

— Marie Brennan

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

— Claes Oldenburg