Chicago Quotes - Page 29

• Basically, I wear sandals, like Jesus. When it gets cold in Chicago, the snow way up to my knees, I still wear my sandals. But that's me.

  Mr. T

  Jesus, Snow, Knees

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. June 26, 2002.

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• 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.

  Nick Offerman

  Fighting, Scene, Theater

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• If youve ever lived in Chicago, anyone who has, they know what a winter in Chicago is like. To be going through a tough time here in the winter would be just be all the more worse.

  Lee DeWyze

  Winter, Tough Times, Would Be

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• I grew up in Chicago on the South Side, and had a ton of freedom, just did whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. At the risk of sounding dopey, I would say it was blissful.

  George Saunders

  Risk, Sides, Grew Up

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

  Dave Grohl

  Rocks, Albums, Band

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on vinyl, Record Store Day". Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. April 15, 2015.

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• Every year, my family and I would go visit my moms family in Texas. We would drive from Chicago to Texas, and once we started to get towards San Antonio, everyone looked like me! It was such a great feeling. Everyone had the same brown skin that I did.

  Marisol Nichols

  Mom, Texas, Years

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• it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

  Jane Smiley

  Food, Years, San Francisco

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• The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.

  Sara Paretsky

  Littles, Able, Showing Up

  Sara Paretsky (2005). “Killing Orders”, Signet

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• (Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.

  Nelson Algren

  Country, Rap, Cities

  Nelson Algren (2011). “The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th Anniversary Critical Edition”, p.369, Seven Stories Press

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• Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly.

  Jessica Mitford

  Ambition, Firsts, Lexicographer

  JESSICA MITFORD (1963). “THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH”

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• Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.

  Jan Morris

  Cities, Names, Giving

  Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been matched by artistry, intelligence, and comparatively moderated greed. No doubt about it, if style were the one gauge, Chicago would be among the greatest of all the cities of the world.

  Jan Morris

  Cities, Greed, Doubt

  Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though youre poking fun at someone or something, theres still an affection for it.

  Bob Newhart

  Fun, Thinking, Affection

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• I was born in Chicago, but I was raised in a town called Jackson, Tennessee. And a lot of these changes that were necessary and talked about it as important have been made, like, people go to school where they want to go. They work for equal pay, they work for - they can go school and have an equal shot at a job.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Jobs, School, Equal Pay

  "Gil Scott-Heron Rhymes a Revolution". Interview With Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 21, 2008.

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• I am an American – Chicago born.

  Saul Bellow

  Born

  1953 The Adventures of Augie March.

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• I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career here in Chicago. I've always been an optimist; I believe you have to be in order to survive, to be honest with you - in health, with what I've been through. That's the way I am.

  Ron Santo

  Believe, Years, Careers

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• 17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points.

  Bob Costas

  Running, Nba Championships, Utah

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• We hate Chicago and Chicago hates us and unfortunately he's on the other team and he's the big gun.

  T. J. Oshie

  Hate, Team, Gun

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• All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Sleep, Shoes, Razors

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• It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

  Bailey Chase

  Growing Up, Eras, Jordan

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• For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago. I don't know how to explain it.

  Patrick Stump

  Girl, Mom, Home

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

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• Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Growing Up, Color, Skins

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• I was talking to my grandpa last Thanksgiving. He pulled me aside and was like, "This Thanksgiving is the 150th for the Vaughn family in Chicago." I was like, "Cool, whatever," but I think when you have a culture like that, you should have a real appreciation for it. My family's been there forever and I don't want to leave.

  Patrick Stump

  Appreciation, Real, Thinking

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

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• I think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago.

  Eric Zorn

  Thinking, People, Politician

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Milton Friedman had the grace and good sense to recognize that he wanted to talk to the general public. He wasn't going to just lecture to the people who happened to appear in his classroom in Chicago or on some lecture circuit. He went out to talk to the general public, believing that you had to convince a democratic nation to change its ways, and he succeeded to a considerable extent.

  Allan H. Meltzer

  Believe, People, Grace

  "Economist Milton Friedman Dies". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 16, 2006.

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