Quotes About Salt Lake City

#1. Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

Jane D. Hull

#2. The nuclear capability of Israel has resulted from this conspiracy, which provided for the highjacking of 200 tons of ore in 1968. The rumor was widespread in the knowledgeable circles of Salt Lake City that the Mormon Church had arranged to assist Israel in bringing off Armageddon.

Mae Brussell

#3. Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.

Sarah Vowell

#4. I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to score 20 goals in the American League and 20 in the NHL. I've kept in contact with him and he's a great guy.

Alain Vigneault

#5. When I saw the 2010 Games and speed skating, I had a change of heart. I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality.

Brittany Bowe

#6. When I played a club in Salt Lake City, I complained to the crowd about the low turnout. It's always good to berate the people who paid to see you because you're upset about the people who didn't show up. It's called misplaced anger, and without it, I wouldn't have an act.

Andy Kindler

#7. I still feel Mormon. Those men in Salt Lake City can't decide who's Mormon and who isn't.

Sonia Johnson

#8. My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz and stuff. He was a hipster. My parents were kind of beatnik-y, you know, for Salt Lake City. But my humor, I think, came from wanting to disarm people before they hit me.

Judd Apatow

#9. I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of citizens worldwide who love and respect the games.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

#10. I collect old Coon Chicken Inn memorabilia. I collect black memorabilia, like old minstrel posters. It was a real place. There was one in Seattle, one in Portland, and one in Salt Lake City. They started in 1925, and then they went out of business around 1958.

Terry Zwigoff

#11. It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

Hermann Maier

#12. I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

Bertrand Russell

#13. We can't escape ourselves, Tag. Here, there, half-way across the world, or in a psych ward in Salt Lake City. I'm Moses and you're Tag. And that part never changes. So either we figure it out here or we figure it out there. But we still gotta deal. And death won't change that.

Amy Harmon

#14. I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.

Hermann Maier

#15. Keep the tourists out, some tourist from Salt Lake City has written. As fellow tourists we heartily agree.

Edward Abbey

#16. When I was a young boy, during the aftermath of World War II, Germany was broken and in ruins. Many people were hungry, sick, and dying. I remember well the humanitarian shipments of food and clothing that came from the Church in Salt Lake City.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#17. I love Salt Lake City. well. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you.

Peter Sagal

#18. You look at Governor Romney's record in the private sector, he helped turn businesses around. Certainly a decade ago he took what would have been an international disaster with the U.S. Olympics, and turned it around for America and made us great again with the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Scott Walker

#19. of all the cities he had been to - Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Salt Lake City - San Francisco was by far the worst.

Tracy Chevalier

#20. I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.

Patrick Fugit

#21. That was such an important time for us, as a team. It was our second gold medal in a row, following Salt Lake City, and really established ourselves as the best team in the world.

Hayley Wickenheiser

#22. It always has been a goal of mine to compete in the Olympics. Right after I graduated from college, I moved out to Salt Lake City with my mind focused on making the 2014 team.

Brittany Bowe

#23. We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Hillary Clinton

#24. I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

Calamity Jane

#25. Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.

Douglas Adams

#26. If you ever go to Temple Square in Salt Lake City, if you stay there long enough, you'll see a homeless person standing in the middle of their nice, beautiful square, holding out a cup for change. And the Mormons don't ever ask him to leave.

Trey Parker

#27. I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness, the texture.

Terry Tempest Williams

#28. Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last.

Pharoahe Monch

#29. Trust your senses most of the time, your intuition some of the time, and your conclusions never.

Marty Rubin

#30. Without hope, I wouldn't even try. Hope lifts me to consider new possibilities so I can stay the course of my desire, no matter what.

Sharon Weil

#31. Iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be?

David Levithan

#32. When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#33. Pace doesn't mean speed; it means the right speed. Diagnosis and cure are simple. If you've reached where you want to be in your story too quickly, ask yourself what you've left out. If you've come to a certain point too slowly, ask yourself what kept you so long.

Reginald Hill

#34. But their fondest thoughts went to the two sons who had brought honour and glory to their ancient name.

W. Somerset Maugham

#35. The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

Patrick DeWitt

#36. Lucy waited patiently, knowing that he did want to talk, or he wouldn't have put on such a performance when he came in. Heath's door slamming was always an announcement that a conversation was in order.

Lisa Kleypas

#37. Did you steal that fruit? " I asked.
"Of course. I want nothing more than to steal apples. I've also always manifested the ability to travel through time, and at night I turn into a beast and only your kiss can break the - "
"I get it. That's a no.

Roshani Chokshi

#38. The haughtiness suddenly fell from Hamster's face. He looked at us fearfully for a long second.

James Patterson

#39. I couldn't see him putting up with the restraints and discipline of being a Bottom - he wouldn't have been able to remember half the rules - and no sane person would allow Rob to be his Top.

Josh Lanyon

#40. Maybe everything the slave catcher said was true, Cora thought, every justification, and the sons of Ham were cursed and the slave master performed the Lord's will. And maybe he was just a man talking to an outhouse door, waiting for someone to wipe her ass. -

Colson Whitehead