Top 100 Quotes About Chicago
#1. However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.
Ted Allen
#2. Word on the streets of Chicago in 1963 was that if Chuck Nicoletti got a contract with your name on it, you were already dead-- you just didn't know it yet.
Richard Belzer And David Wayne
#3. I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America.
David Schwimmer
#5. My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.
James Cronin
#7. I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago ... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I'm still here - but I'm only a binge socialite.
John Cusack
#8. Chicago - this vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, Mace-smelling boneyard of a city; an elegant rockpile monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.
Hunter S. Thompson
#9. I would love the opportunity to work in Chicago. It would be like a dream come true, if I could work there on something like the way ER was filmed.
Joe Lando
#10. Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn't even listen to in our own homes from our parents.
B.J. The Chicago Kid
#11. My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.
Wesley Clark
#12. Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city.
Charles Roven
#13. I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.
Jelly Roll Morton
#14. I first met Jelly Roll in Chicago. He was livin' high then. You know, Jelly was a travelin' cat, sharp and good lookin' and always about he wrote this and that and the other thing - in fact, everything!
Zutty Singleton
#15. My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.
Oprah Winfrey
#16. I'm a huge fan of Chicago sports and Chicago food, and I love going home and my family is still there. I guess it's pretty easy to have a normal life in Chicago.
Matt Walsh
#17. Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
Nelson Algren
#18. What brought me to L.A. was work! I moved to Chicago after college - I went to Kalamazoo - did my nerd thing, graduated, and moved to Chicago to pursue improv.
Steven Yeun
#19. It's basically taking a 911 call, bringing them on stage and dealing with it just like when I was a Chicago policeman for 12 years. I personally become involved. Where Jerry lets people tell their story and lets everything happen on stage, I kind of go after the bad guy and protect the little guy.
Steve Wilkos
#20. Wherever you go, things change you. I mean, obviously moving to Miami and becoming part of the NBA has given me a different perspective on style than I had when I lived in Chicago or Milwaukee.
Dwyane Wade
#21. Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)
Mae West
#22. I lived in Chicago, but the music I was inspired by was from D. C.
Fred Armisen
#23. My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.
Graham Moore
#24. But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?
Fisher Stevens
#25. Who needs the fairy tale when crazy, messy, sexy reality with the woman I adore is a million times better?
Kate Meader
#26. I lived in a place where the weather holds a grudge against humans. Winter in Chicago is winter defined (..)
Royce Prouty
#27. She knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.
Charles Bukowski
#28. I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.
Bruce Rauner
#29. The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.
Steve Carell
#30. They talk as an English butler might after several years in a Chicago grand-opera company.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#31. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.
Judy Chicago
#32. My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.
Brian D'Arcy James
#33. If I have one special memory, it was when we recreated the trial of the Chicago Seven - and I'd known about it before - but this was a pivotal moment in my life. If my father had been found guilty of conspiracy, I wouldn't be here.
Troy Garity
#34. Lincoln must have welcomed the chance that evening to escape from such friends, if only to submit to a final fitting for the recently delivered inaugural suit from the Chicago tailors Titsworth & Brother.
Harold Holzer
#35. I have a lot of fond memories of St. Patrick's Day in Chicago. Vague, but fond.
Joel Murray
#36. We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.
Robbie Q. Telfer
#37. There are almost no beautiful cities in America, though there are many beautiful parts of cities, and some sections that are glorious without being beautiful, like downtown Chicago. Cities are too big and too rich for beauty; they have outgrown themselves too many times.
Noel Perrin
#38. I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
Daniel Barenboim
#39. As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.
Billy Corgan
#40. If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.
Nick Offerman
#41. When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.
Daniel Clowes
#44. Nobody deserves to go to the World Series more than the Chicago Cubs. But they can't go because that would spoil their custom of never going. It is an irreconcilable paradox.
Bill Bryson
#45. My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.
R. Kelly
#46. When people come to the only professional wizard in the Chicago phone book for help, they're one of two things: desperate or smart. Very rarely are they both.
Jim Butcher
#47. The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago.
Gene Siskel
#48. They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire.
Al Capone
#49. Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.
Jane Byrne
#50. Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.
Ralph Metcalfe
#51. We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
Quincy Jones
#52. I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.
Aleksandar Hemon
#53. Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is.
Patrick Kane
#54. When you're a Chicago artist, to play Lollapalooza, that's not a normal thing. It's artists on a path to a certain place that do that. Chief Keef did it; Kids These Days did it; Cool Kids did it. And I'm the next Cool-Kids-Chief, if you will.
Chance The Rapper
#55. His anger seemed out of proportion to the crime. Men. Give them an orgasm and they want ... well, probably more orgasms.
Kate Meader
#57. When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago - he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.
R. Kelly
#58. As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans.
Clint Walker
#59. The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.
Denis Leary
#60. The last human of importance the American people have been able to keep in the working end of their brain is your own Chicago triggerman, Dillinger. After him they kind of lost hold on keeping who's who straight. So don't be surprised if they don't remember who Cabot Wright is, or if they do.
James Purdy
#61. I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. I'm just not a cold weather person.
Emily Robison
#62. Kids in North Lawndale need not be confused about their prospects: Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center sits directly adjacent to the neighborhood.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#63. I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
Jack Steinberger
#65. Someday the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series
Harry Caray
#66. Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.
James Cronin
#67. You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
Ralph Kiner
#68. I moved to Chicago and I did theater, and then I started writing and I stop acting and I did sketch. You know, I did all of the things that, if you were serious about doing television, don't do.
Allison Tolman
#69. Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe.
Michael Nutter
#70. I moved to Chicago and began attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The students and teachers I met in Chicago were politically active and also passionate about the same things that I was interested in. It was a great match for me.
Stephen Beal
#71. There a great ethnic cuisine available to you in Chicago.
Jose Garces
#72. There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.
Suzanne Fields
#73. I did see 'Les Miz' and I thought it was just incredible. Totally incredible. I love 'Chicago,' too.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#74. I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.
Kel Mitchell
#75. As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.
Michelle Malkin
#76. I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.
Judy Chicago
#77. It's a crazy soprano, and singing as a man as a woman. But for many years, I was on the road in Chicago as Mary Sunshine, so I can do that. I didn't think there was any way I was going to get it - it was so far out of my comfort-zone.
Max Von Essen
#78. You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.
Ahmet Ertegun
#79. I couldn't get to sleep until four in the morning. Nobody knew. You pick up the morning paper in Chicago, and it says, 'N.Y. at Detroit (n.).' I mean, doesn't a man have a Constitutional right to the box scores?
Roger Angell
#80. It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago
Dan C. Quayle
#81. I've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.
John Travolta
#82. I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.
Grant Achatz
#83. Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
Eugene V. Debs
#84. For a long time, it was hard for me to get my work done in Chicago. Silk Road gave me opportunities to do shows like 'Golden Child' - shows that nobody else seemed interested in. And they bring an artistic integrity to the work that matches anything you'll find at a bigger theatre.
David Henry Hwang
#85. I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When I was in college, I actually had them change the starting lineup to say 'from Robbins, Illinois' instead of 'Chicago, Illinois.'
Dwyane Wade
#86. I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.
James Iha
#87. Straight talk is a virtue. Dirty talk is a goddamn blessing.
Kate Meader
#88. She says that in Chicago she used to wish on airplanes because there were far more of those floating around in the night sky than stars. There
Mary Kubica
#89. Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today,
Mikey Welsh
#90. I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the sad blues, necessarily; the Chicago blues is what I like, which is the kind of blues you can dance to.
Sinead O'Connor
#91. What a place to put a city, right on the front line of absolute zero. No wonder a cow burned it down.
Mark Helprin
#92. I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.
Mort Sahl
#93. It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago.
Richard M. Daley
#94. I love Chicago. It was an awesome place to grow up. It's a big city but it doesn't feel like one. I can't imagine that if I had kids I would raise them anywhere else besides Chicago.
Chris McCaughan
#95. I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
Jack Adams
#96. In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality - Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever - Philadelphia had a tradition that was very distinct and unique.
John Oates
#98. They're flowing out of Cook into the fringes. People move out of Chicago and into suburban Cook County and now they're losing to the outer suburbs.
Kenny Johnson
#99. 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 pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage.
Billy Gardell
#100. He fell to his knees.
Oh, that was good.
Kate Meader
