Chicago Quotes

We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.

San Antonio drives me crazy, but Chicago drives me crazy in a different way.

I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

I am an American – Chicago born.

It's hard to get up for a good high-school team like the Chicago Bulls.

I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college

I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City.

If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.

The first time I ever went to Chicago was with Zappa and I had a fantastic experiences with him and every other band I've played with. It's a great music town.

From the time I started playing solo drums, doing clinics and stuff, you know I think one of the largest selling clinics I ever did was in Chicago.

Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop a work ethic of not selling it short.

Hillary Clinton is somebody who has had a passion for families and children since she was a kid, in a Methodist youth group as a teenager in the suburbs of Chicago.

Boogie! I hate boogie, God, I mean, not the Chicago boogie like Willie Dixon or Howlin' Wolf, but all those awful white bands.

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

You can't not be into basketball and grow up in Chicago or live in L.A., because people are so fanatical about the teams. You know what's going on with the games even if you don't watch.

I went to the Chicago Art Institute, which was the best painting school in the area at that time. And I took painting classes - basic elementary painting classes and drawing classes of all sorts.

We stayed on at the Institute [Chicago called the School of Design] because that was - I don't know, you start at one place and you stay there, I guess. Inertia takes over.

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.

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love.

Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak.

The past is of value only as it aids in understanding the present

Really, nobody was there?” I asked.“Well, nobody important, ” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.

So, Beav, tell me about yourself.""I'm Blue.""Sweetheart, if I had your dubious taste in men, I wouldn't be too happy, either.""My name is Blue. Blue Bailey.

Life sure is easier when you're rich.""And a natural born charmer. Don't forget that part.""How could I?" she retorted. "It's the only thing we have in common.

She's as plastic as you are! I'm telling you, it's a bad idea. If the two of you have kids, they'll come out of the birth canal with Fisherprice stamped on their butts!

There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true.

On the Rolling Stones - You will walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Stones perform and suddenly the Chicago stockyards smell clean and good by comparison.

The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills.

That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street’s burn.

Big cities can have big hearts.

You should seriously get a job planning dates for The Bachelor.

I had thought Chicago was inevitable, like diarrhea.

Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just to help us all appreciate the good stuff.

The stars glittered in the sky and as the number of people at the party grew there were merging conversations and laughter and bodies moving in outlines around the kegs of beer in a curtsy of youth.

Molly Cade, you could be wearing a White Sox shirt, a Yankees thong, and a Packers Cheesehead and I would still want to do you.”She sighed. “Such a romantic.

His lips so soft, yet so stern, he pressed his mouth to mine. "I will have both of you, " he said. "My Sentinel and my city. And the GP will learn exactly how stubborn we both can be.

Those blue pools still wavered between her eyes and mouth. “I’m gonna kiss you now, minou.”She might have nodded. She might have blinked. One for yes, two for hell yeah.

Things are more like they are now...than they have EVER been before!

You always have my attention. When you're in the room, you're my sun.

Actually, they fought to fill the emptiness of their lives as they filled their empty glasses. They fought—not because the liquor was in them, but because it did not fill them enough.

Pucker up, Hollywood. By the time I’m finished with you, the neighbors are gonna need a cigarette.

The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.

I've been in Chicago for every Christmas of my life.

Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.