Chicago Quotes - Page 11

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

Chicago is a pretty good town.

There are many things I'm looking forward to in 2013, both personally and professionally. Plans for new restaurants in the U.S., including Eataly Chicago, are underway, and I'm gearing up for the 2013 Ironman world championships in Hawaii - if I'm lucky enough to get a spot!

Going back to California is not like going back to Vermont, or Chicago; Vermont and Chicago are relative constants, against which one measures one's own change. All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears.

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

I did see LES MIZ and I thought it was just incredible. Totally incredible. I love CHICAGO, too.

Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.

When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.

If we trace origins of anarchism in the United States, then probably Henry David Thoreau is the closest you can come to an early American anarchist. You do not really encounter anarchism until after the Civil War, when you have European anarchists, especially German anarchists, coming to the United States. They actually begin to organize. The first time that anarchism has an organized force and becomes publicly known in the United States is in Chicago at the time of Haymarket Affair.

I would encourage the people out in Chicago and all of us to continue to press for, that type of prosecutorial accountability.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride.

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.

A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

I don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers.

We lived in Chicago, but the music we were inspired by was from D. C.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

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.

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

I love being in Chicago.

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

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

Working people are working even longer hours, even though we won the eight-hour workday at the Haymarket General Strike in Chicago.