Top 1200 Downtown Chicago Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I did ride-alongs and did some firefighter training at the Chicago Fire Academy.

I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into something.' Then, I was on my third photo shoot ever, and Adam Leech from 'Downtown Abbey' saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some.

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

We can and will make Chicago a place where your ZIP code doesn't determine your destiny.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

I'm a huge Ron Rivera fan, I played for Ron for three years in Chicago.

I love 'Chicago,' I love the musical and the movie and I thought Catherine Zeta-Jones was amazing.

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

A five-year shelf life in Chicago is almost equivalent to five to 10 somewhere else.

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.

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

Disco evolved into Chicago warehouse. Then there was techno; eventually, it evolved into EDM.

I think of Chicago as a great entrepreneur city, a city that supports its own, that isn't as jaded as New York and L.A.

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do

When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.

I've got ties in Chicago. I was trained there. I've got a lot of family and friends.

I come from an era where you just build something. Me and Common built what we built from Chicago from scratch.

My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.

There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the posters were often more impressive than the bands.

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

I will argue with anyone in New York: we have the best pizza in Chicago and the best blues.

One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's reception center in Chicago.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.

I feel there's a really raw quality in the Chicago theater community that's really special.

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

I think Chicago's kind of a comedy hub, and I think it always has been.

I was very, very happy in Chicago as an actor making $168 a week.

Real Madrid is one of the biggest clubs in the world. In every city, they have supporters. I hope that the people in Chicago support us, especially since we have some players on the team.

Chicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome.

To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London. But even the sh-tty diner and bars here are kind of exciting for me. Downtown is funky, West Village is beautiful with the cobbled streets, but I love going uptown because you then you go, "F-ck, I'm in New York!" You see all the skyscrapers.

I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one.

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.

Yes, William E. Dodd was the - became the - America's first ambassador to Nazi Germany. Prior to that, he was a professor of history at the University of Chicago - mild-mannered guy.

'The Good Guy' is a totally differently-looking New York than 'How To Make It' portrays. 'The Good Guy' is all about Wall Street and that culture, which 'How To Make It' touches on, but 'How To Make It' also is downtown, Lower East Side loft parties, cool clubs, Brooklyn and that world.

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.

House is a big part of the rhythm in Chicago. I don't care if you're the most hood gangbanger - you understand house.

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.

I think Chicago has provided, for quite a long time, a very high level of stand-up comics that make their way out to New York and L.A.

I live in Chicago, but my work is always in New York or L.A., so I always have to travel for my job.

There are great fans in Chicago. I think you'd rather have them recognize than not recognize you.

L.A. just doesn't seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It's home.

Southern Florida ain't even Florida for real. It's like New York, Chicago, the beaches.

I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody's cool on the block.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

Nah, I see Chicago often. I go out there, so nah, I don't miss it.

I went to the theater school at DePaul University in Chicago, the Goodman School.

I was a Chicago theater actress until my early 30s, so I got to do a lot of meaty stuff in theater.

Most of my family is from Arkansas on my Mom's side, and my Dad's family is from up north in Chicago.

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

Many feel that sitting at a screen sweating over the design of handrail details for the next cute downtown boutique hotel just doesn't make sense when more than 150,000 people have lost their lives, more than five million people have been made homeless and whole towns have been swept away.

When I was little, my mom would dress me up and take me downtown on the Carondelet bus, which in itself was exciting. We would go to see Santa Claus at Famous-Barr. The decorations were so pretty. The line was long, but that just gave me more time to enjoy Santa's Toyland. I loved every minute of it.

Working on 'Candyman' in Chicago was probably the - I absolutely love this city, this city is so funky.

San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it.

[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.

What an incredibly beautiful city at night Chicago is. Absolutely beautiful.