“ Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. ”
- Frank Lloyd Wright- Copy
- 3.7K
“ In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold. ”
- Gary Washburn- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. ”
- Michael Douglas- Copy
- 2K
“ They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair. ”
- Sally Rand- Copy
- 410
“ Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
- 1.6K
“ I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
- 731
“ I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week. ”
- Gene Kelly- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west. ”
- Richard Jeni- Copy
- 977
“ I thought it was a joke, I pretended to go along with it, just to scare Chicago. Then my agent said, 'Bobby, these guys are serious.'. ”
- Bobby Hull- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. ”
- Ben Hecht- Copy
- 3.7K
“ When I was a kid, I won a contest and played a Mozart concerto with the Chicago Symphony, and I've written some movie scores, and I've been listening to orchestral music for years. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
- 979
“ There was a radio station in Chicago, there was a guy named Al Benson, and he pretty much dominated black radio in the '50s. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops. ”
- Tim Meadows- Copy
- 131
“ Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it. ”
- Claes Oldenburg- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Going to Chicago was like going out of the world… I went up to St. Louis for a litle while, and I didn't like it. ”
- Muddy Waters- Copy
- 2.3K
“ They are pure, unduplicatable Chicago. They help explain why - in Chicago - it is unwise to take your eyes off any asset smaller than a locomotive. ”
- Keith Wheeler- Copy
- 3K
“ I studied with Robert Morss Lovett, the great professor of epic literature. Another important influence was Ronald S. Crane, a professor of aesthetics at the University of Chicago. ”
- Marguerite Young- Copy
- 1.3K
“ My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here. ”
- Oprah Winfrey- Copy
- 3.4K
“ You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes. ”
- Ralph Kiner- Copy
- 966
“ I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail. ”
- Henry Louis Mencken- Copy
- 39
“ Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
- 991
“ They have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.'. ”
- Ian Fleming- Copy
- 3.6K
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