Cleveland Quotes

• Cleveland fans are awesome.

  LeBron James

  Fans, Social Media

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• America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

  Tennessee Williams

  New York, New Orleans, Cities

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• If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Lying, Faces, Saws

  "Will Progressive Field renovations shrink Cleveland Indians' 2015 payroll? Hey, Hoynsie!" by Paul Hoynes, www.cleveland.com. November 20, 2014.

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• I love the normalcy of Cleveland. There's regular people there.

  Drew Carey

  People, Normalcy

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1, 1997.

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• Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!

  Randy Newman

  Light, Cities, Magic

  Song: Burn On, Album: Sail Away

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• This just in: Beverly Hills 90210, Cleveland Browns 3.

  Colin Mochrie

  Beverly Hills, Hills, Cleveland Browns

  "Whose Line Is It Anyway?". www.imdb.com. 1998 - 2007.

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• At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.

  Tim Conway

  Horse, Fall, Jockeys

  Interview with Claudia Perry, www.aislesay.com. March 31, 2005.

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• The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.

  Terrence Howard

  Differences, Taste, Casual

  "Terrence Dashon Howard: A rising star". Interview with Jason Zingale, www.bullz-eye.com. August 5, 2005.

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• I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.

  Joel Silver

  Want, Size, Explosions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

  Harvey Pekar

  Artist, Mad, Looks

  Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.104, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding. My wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.

  George Andrew Olah

  Years, Wife, Groups

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• I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I wanted to make myself known.

  Kid Cudi

  Hip Hop, Hips, Steps

  "Kid Cudi: 'I've always been ahead of the curve'" by Archna Sawjani, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2009.

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• If you have one good series, you know, it's a blessing. Two good series is unusual. Three is a phenomenon, but right now, I'm working with these wonderful women on 'Hot in Cleveland,' and Valerie Bertinelli, and Wendy Malick and Jane Leeves are like, it's like the buddy-ship we had on 'Golden Girls' and 'Mary Tyler Moore.'

  Betty White

  Girl, Blessing, Two

  "The white hot Betty White". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. June 4, 2012.

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• I moved from Cleveland to L.A. with a girlfriend, we broke up, and I lived out of my car for a year and a half, on the road with nothing on my mind but getting my act good enough to be on 'The Tonight Show.'

  Drew Carey

  Girlfriend, Years, Car

  "Drew Carey remembers when The Tonight Show really meant something". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 17, 2012.

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• Love is like falconry," he said. "Don't you think that's true, Cleveland?" "Never say love is like anything." said Cleveland. "It isn't.

  Michael Chabon

  Love Is, Thinking, Said

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.105, Open Road Media

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• I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

  Joe Shuster

  Artist, Ohio, Years

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• I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore

  Art Modell

  Years, Baltimore, Enjoyed

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• In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly with the season, even if the season is only six weeks.

  Michael Symon

  Beautiful, Vegetables, Six

  "Meat Man Michael Symon Does Meatless Monday". Interview with Peggy Neu, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union.

  Conan O'Brien

  Moving, People, Unions

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• Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.

  Fred Willard

  Hometown, Rich

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• It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.

  Frank Robinson

  Sports, Nice, Black

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• I tried out for 'Jeopardy' once, when they came to Cleveland, but I didn't make it.

  Drew Carey

  Jeopardy

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• In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

  George Andrew Olah

  Summer, Responsibility, Academic Life

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• And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Years, Cities

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• Grover Cleveland declined to participate in character attacks on Blaine . When presented with papers which purported to be extremely damaging to Blaine, he grabbed them, tore them up, flung the shreds into the fire, and decreed, "The other side can have a monopoly of all the dirt in this campaign.

  Grover Cleveland

  Character, Fire, Campaigns

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