Seattle Quotes

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. (Hunter S. Thompson)
As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge. View quote
Adam Jones
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory. View quote
Douglass North
My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust. View quote
Ron Reagan
And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city. View quote
Krist Novoselic
I like New York better than Seattle. It's bigger. I was really sad when I left, because I miss my friends, but I call them almost every day, and I have friends here now. View quote
Rachel Trachtenburg
In Seattle we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life. Our winters are not cold and our summers are not hot and we congratulate ourselves for choosing such a spectacular place to rest our heads. View quote
Garth Stein
Although I love snow, it messes things up terribly around Seattle, with all of our hills. I worry about my loved ones driving. View quote
Deb Caletti
I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University. View quote
George Stigler
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home. View quote
Quincy Jones
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle. (Quincy Jones)
Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium. View quote
Paul Allen
One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart. View quote
Layne Staley
I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education. View quote
David Cook
Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here. View quote
Donald Byrd
Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s. View quote
Joey Santiago
Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains. View quote
Jonathan Raban
At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back? View quote
Jonathan Raban
One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami. View quote
Josh Turner
I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks. View quote
Sheryl Lee
I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics. (Stone Gossard)
I'm looking forward to providing the men of Seattle with an evening where they can kick back, light up a cigar and enjoy a night to themselves. Women, we can't technically keep you out, but please stay at home. View quote
Tom Leykis
I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave. View quote
David Guterson
My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area. View quote
David Guterson
If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people. View quote
Moby