Chicago Quotes - page 16

A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning. (Ted Allen)
I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me. View quote
Ted Allen
T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy. View quote
Thomas Middleditch
Investing in Chicago property is just Wandas first move into the U.S. real estate market. View quote
Wang Jianlin
May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago. View quote
William Kunstler
... name association was big, as were my presumed interests in vaudeville and politics. In St. Louis the Bow tie was characterized as "very Charlie McCarthy", while in Chicago a young man defined it as "the pierced eyebrow of the Republican party". View quote
David Sedaris
Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America. View quote
Dave Grohl
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport. View quote
Dick Gregory
Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs. View quote
George Will
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss. View quote
Georg Solti
And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me. (Michelle Obama)
My forefather kindled the first fire at Detroit; from thence, he extended his lines to the head waters of Scioto; from thence, to its mouth; from thence, down the Ohio, to the mouth of the Wabash, and from thence to Chicago, on lake Michigan. View quote
Little Turtle
After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that's where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you. View quote
Tina Fey
History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles. When you go to Mexico City through space, you find it a sort of cross between modern Madrid and modern Chicago, with additions of its own; but if you go to Mexico City through history, back only 500 years, you will find it as distant as though it were on another planet: inhabited by cultivated barbarians, sensitive and cruel, highly organized and still in the Copper Age, a collection of startling, of unbelievable contrasts. View quote
Gilbert Highet
In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store. View quote
Jack Steinberger
The onset of the Civil War, the greatest preponderance, the greatest population per capita of millionaires and multimillionaires in this country was in the Mississippi River Valley. It wasn't in Boston, wasn't in Chicago, wasn't in New York. The richest people in this country were slaveholders. Most of our earliest presidents were slaveholders. And the fact that they were presidents is not incidental to the fact that they-to their slaveholding. That was how they built their wealth. That was how Thomas Jefferson built his wealth. That was how George Washington built his wealth. Individual slaves were the equivalent of, say, owning a home today. They were people, but turned into objects of extreme wealth. So, just from the economic perspective, there's that. View quote
Ta-Nehisi Coates
I have defended the interests of France at the G8 in Washington; afterwards I was at Chicago to announce the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan; I have participated in two European summits, so I have fully respected the engagements I made to the French. View quote
François Hollande
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. View quote
Wesley Clark
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. View quote
Ana Castillo
Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it. View quote
John Malkovich
I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there. (Madonna (entertainer))
I did see LES MIZ and I thought it was just incredible. Totally incredible. I love CHICAGO, too. View quote
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Just about everybody in politics has something to hide. The higher they rise in the system, the more skeletons they have stuffed in their closets. And as we have all come to appreciate, this goes double - or perhaps even squared - for politicos who got their start in Chicago. And because the system no longer cares about our rights (to the extent it ever did) we can no longer focus solely on issues related to them, but must cast about more widely to ensnare and defeat the enemies of liberty. View quote
L. Neil Smith
I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background. View quote
Leona Lewis
Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name. View quote
Tom Waits