Chicagoan Quotes

#1. I'm still a Chicagoan in the fact that I can't do Christmas with sand and palm trees. It just doesn't compute - it's not Christmas unless your face hurts when you step outside.

Johnny Galecki

#2. I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.

Rod Stewart

#3. He talked and talked because he didn't know what to say.

Dacia Maraini

#4. I consider myself a Chicagoan, and if anybody else does, that gratifies me.

Marv Levy

#5. The truly terrible thing about this life, was not knowing what you want, but only able to recognize what you do not want. You have to spend so much time and energy trying to find it out, time that other people spent in pursuing of their desires.

Whitney Otto

#6. Nothing Can Change Your Past ... But Not Worrying About Things To Come, Will Help Change Future.

Timothy Pina

#7. We don't come to Jesus because He makes life better. We come to Jesus because He's better than life. - Matt Chandler

Jan Elder

#8. There is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#9. I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to.

Jonathan Ive

#10. The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Ronald Blythe

#11. Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she's famous enough to have some power, but not so famous she has to deal with people buzzing around her life.

Amy Landecker

#12. 'Community' is a great show. I love 'Raising Hope' with Martha Plimpton. And I love 'The Middle' - another Chicagoan in there is Neil Flynn, who used to play the janitor in 'Scrubs.'

Jim O'Heir

#13. I felt naked beneath the wildness of her eyes. I felt alive. Unknown. And I knew then that the world contained so many things I would never understand.

Chris Howard

#14. I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.

Alberta Hunter

#15. Every mind should reflect to touch the green of life through trees.

Munia Khan

#16. You can tell the idyllic nature of a family by the upkeep of its picnic table. Ours is its own indictment. We are splintering and peeling. We rot.

Peter Hedges

#17. I'll always identify as a Chicagoan; if it wasn't so cold, I'd be there forever.

Amy Landecker

#18. People can be stunningly unobservant.

Stephen King

#19. Since we hate the same people, we should be friends.

Mason Cooley

#20. One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks.

Winston Churchill