Top 1200 Downtown Chicago Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Going to places like Chicago and New York as the champion is kind of what was really special for me.

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.

I want it to be here in Chicago. I'm going to play my heart and soul out for this team and give it everything I've got.

Sam screamed the fun scream, and there it was. Downtown lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. Sam sat down and started laughing. Patrick started laughing. I started laughing. and in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

'Chicago' kind of set the bar in terms of how we approach musicals, and tone is one of the key elements.

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

Out in L.A., things relax even further than they do in Chicago. There's such a looseness to it, and there's a potentially refreshing advantage to that.

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.

As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.

I enjoy my job. And I love the city of Chicago, and this organization - it gave me the start to my whole career.

There are a lot of people in Chicago that I miss. I was there one year out of high school. So I basically grew up there.

We don't have any CGI with any of the car stuff. I think it's a real experience when you see this car going through really fast really wild and you see me driving a lot of the times and also a big chase in downtown Atlanta. It's just incredible.

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn.

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

I built RPM Italian, a restaurant I frequent as much as I can, because that is what people from Chicago do. They build things.

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

I go by the name of Polo G and I'm from the near North Side of Chicago, the 1300 block of Hudson Avenue.

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef.

I think growth is a big part of everything, it think even growth for Brooklyn, growth for Downtown Brooklyn is good.

Part of our history includes the long struggle to pass the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance.

I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

If there was a Mount Rushmore for pro wrestling cities, Chicago and New York would be on there. After that, it's debatable.

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

Any conductor who tells you that if he is approached for the directorship of the Chicago Symphony that he's not interested in it, you know perfectly well he's lying.

Chicago is an incredibly great city, but it was clear to me that greatness wasn't being spread to all our neighborhoods.

My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches.

My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.

I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.

I have a dialogue coach who helps me out with some of the more tricky Chicago vowel sounds.

I would jump off the Willis Tower, which is the tallest building in Chicago, to support Hillary Clinton.

I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.

I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

Maybe, so Donald Trump didn't start the fire at this particular Chicago protest, but fanning the flames is a problem.

Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

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

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

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.

'The Sandberg Game' comes up all the time. Fans tell me where they were. They were driving down the highway, they were in the bleachers, they were downtown listening on the radio, they were on the farm on a tractor. I've heard all the stories where people have been. They're just amazed by the ending of the game and the thrill of it.

Can you find out how owns C and R industries? They bought the old abandoned mental asylum downtown." "That old thing? What are they going to do with it?" "I don't know. I was hoping their overcompensating sign would say, but it just says 'private property' and shouts lots of threats in capital letters, all of which I plan to completely ignore later.

The first movie I fell in love with was Tim Burton's 'Batman,' which isn't Chicago, obviously, it's Gotham.

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

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

Music is so important. Because in Chicago it's up to us to tell the stories nobody else will.

Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an explanation of circumstance that shaped the Rainbow People. Stroll around the old downtown and it's impossible not to be affected by the trials and tribulations of the struggle. But, in many ways, it is the sense of triumph in the face of such adversity that makes the experience all the more poignant.

The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.

In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.

In Chicago, they wanted Michael to do his thing and me to be just rebound. I'm more than a rebounder.

I worked on it [ Too Much Tuna] for a little bit downtown and it was a great experience. I couldn't believe how enthusiastic the audience was for it. It was just extraordinary. It felt like you were at a rock concert, which was just unusual for shows at Cherry Lane, which are usually intimate plays about big ideas, you know.

Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph

For over 20 years, I have been saying that Chicago is by far one of the greatest food cities in the world.

For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.

You have to diet before you even go to shoot in Chicago because we just eat the entire time.

Chicago keeps getting all these complete games. Im expecting 50 cent hot dogs.