Chicago Quotes

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February. (Gary Cole)
It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago. View quote
Dan Quayle
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. View quote
David Mamet
Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt. View quote
Studs Terkel
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection. View quote
Saul Bellow
Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood. View quote
Norman Mailer
CHICAGO Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. View quote
Nelson Algren
Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. View quote
Dave Barry
Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price. (George Stigler)
I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often. View quote
Bob Balaban
Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio. View quote
Mel Torme
There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money. View quote
Muddy Waters
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957. View quote
Vernon Jordan
I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish. View quote
Wilford Brimley
Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity. View quote
Will McDonough
New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic, San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington wink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter. Detroit is a one-trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle, St. Louis has become the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early. The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught but checkerboards for this sort of game. But Chicago is a great American city. Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities. View quote
Norman Mailer
[On boxing] [For] The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out. View quote
Jennifer Beals
I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking. View quote
Jay Leno
While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago. (Rahm Emanuel)
I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America. View quote
Ted Nugent
A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I was in Chicago in 1994 and at this time I had no thoughts of coming back and playing the game of basketball, Bryon Russell came over to me and said, "Why'd you quit? You know I could guard you." When I did come back in 1995 and we played Utah in '96, I'm at the center circle and Bryon Russell is standing next to me. I said, "You remember what you said in 1994 about, 'I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you?' View quote
Michael Jordan
I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America. View quote
Sarah Bernhardt