Best 404 quotes in «chicago quotes» category

I was born out west but later on I migrated to the east side of Chicago. That's where my roots are at. I've been over east for more than ten years.

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.

I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

I went to see Chicago after I finished shooting, and say what you want about it, but that thing was so meticulously planned. It was planned like NASA planned its trips to the moon. It made me feel like some sort of horrible dilettante.

I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.

I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.

I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home.

I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.

I work under three umbrellas: entertainment, education, and entrepreneurship. Of course the entertainment fragment speaks for itself because I'm in Chicago. However, a lot of folks may not know I teach courses at Ohio State University that covers life in professional sports.

I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.

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.

I would encourage the people out in Chicago and all of us to continue to press for, that type of prosecutorial accountability.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

L.A. just doesn't seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It's home.

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

Making ziti for the Chicago Fire Department! I hope they're not too busy today, but this should fill their bellies I hope they like it!

Mea culpa, mea culpa. MIT and Wharton and University of Chicago created the financial engineering instruments, which, like Samson and Delilah, blinded every CEO. They didn't realize the kind of leverage they were doing and they didn't understand when they were really creating a real profit or a fictitious one.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we were capable of sacrificing honor to a sense of efficacy.

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

My dad's from there, and I have relatives there, but I don't think I've been to Chicago since I was like 9.

My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.'

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.

My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

Now, whether or not in a place like Chicago you do stop and frisk, which worked very well, Mayor [Rudy] Giuliani is here, worked very well in New York.

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.

Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.

Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

Politics never takes a holiday in Chicago.

Remember, no matter how hard your life is right now, it would be worse if a song by Chicago was playing.

One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's reception center in Chicago.

San Antonio drives me crazy, but Chicago drives me crazy in a different way.

Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

Six bucks and my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago.

Someday, the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series...