Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Irv Kupcinet

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Irv Kupcinet.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Irv Kupcinet

Irving Kupcinet was an American newspaper columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, television talk-show host, and radio personality based in Chicago, Illinois. He was popularly known by the nickname "Kup".

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me. — © Irv Kupcinet
My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule.
I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
'At Random' ran on Saturday nights for as long as the conversation was still lively. Sometimes, I'd finish way after midnight, then hop a plane for whatever city I was working a football game that Sunday.
My father, a bakery-truck driver, was the epitome of the work ethic that probably kept me knocking out columns six days a week for a rough total of 12,600 over 50 years.
Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.
Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.
A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs.
I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I've come to love this American giant, viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like my City of Big Shoulders.
What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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