Best 404 quotes in «chicago quotes» category

I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

I've been to Chicago a lot - it's one of my favorite places. My wife is from Chicago, and I worked in the theater there a lot.

I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I've come to love this American giant, viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like my City of Big Shoulders.

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our 52 states.

I wanted to come to Chicago. I also wanted to do "Saturday Night Live." And then I got to a place where I didn't want to do those things anymore.For the sketch comedy thing, I got cast on "MADtv," and that will kill any man's desire to do comedy.

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

I was a mime. Im not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.

I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

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

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

I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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 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.'

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

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!

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 alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

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

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 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.

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

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 difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

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

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

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 realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.