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Quotes About Seattle

Playing in Seattle, 'The 12' are extremely loud. At first, I could be on the field, two feet away from you and not hear a single thing you're saying. But once you get used to the noise, you use it to your advantage. It charges you up.
~ Shaquill Griffin
Mattis once called Trump's tendency to wander off during briefings "Seattle freeway off-ramps to nowhere," where Fox News items were "more salient to him.
~ Bob Woodward
Seattle is the place where you can really find any kind of food, especially Japanese food.
~ DeAndre Yedlin
January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' and a path to a professional comedy career.
~ Hari Kondabolu
I was close to joining Seattle Sounders when I left Schalke in 2012, but we decided to go to Qatar first.
~ Raul
I know a lot of people say New York is the basketball mecca, but to me, it's Seattle.
~ Rashard Lewis
And it'd be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington.
~ Stephen Briggs Terry Pratchett
Dedicated to all the children and not-so children that live and play in the shadow of the Space Needle that stands in the heart of Seattle, Washington. It is where my heart will always be. Most special of all, this book is dedicated to my granddaughter Lauren. May she live in the shadow of the Space Needle forever and a day. -Stephen/Dad
~ Stephen Cosgrove
I mean, if you look at all the great romantic screwbally kind of movies from the '30s and '40s, they're all in New York. Even 'Sleepless in Seattle,' a movie about Seattle, ends up in New York, of course. The whole country, even if they've never been to New York, knows about it... from the movies.
~ Brad Hall
A lot's riding on 'Dune,' and my friends in Seattle realize what's happening if I freak out a bit. They accept whatever I happen to be, and they tell me when I'm slipping out of Kyle. They call me the 'God Emperor of the Universe.'
~ Kyle MacLachlan
I used to sneak into the Forum to watch the Lake Show, when I lived in L.A. with my pop. I was born in Seattle, and for fourth, and fifth grade, I went to L.A., then I came back to Seattle and then back to L.A. for eighth, ninth, and 10th grade. But it was easy to sneak in the Forum, like really easy.
~ Jamal Crawford
Although I love snow, it messes things up terribly around Seattle, with all of our hills. I worry about my loved ones driving.
~ Deb Caletti
Obviously people in Seattle love a little more sun but also nothing is built for it, i miss my rain.
~ Ed Murray
By the time I could see again, the captain had announced the final descent into Seattle. Couldn't they find a less ominous phrase for it? I don't like flying as it is, even without the implication that before landing I might want to have all my worldly and spiritual affairs in order.
~ C.E. Murphy
Living in Seattle is like being married to a beautiful woman who's sick all the time.
~ G.M. Ford
In Seattle we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life. Our winters are not cold and our summers are not hot and we congratulate ourselves for choosing such a spectacular place to rest our heads.
~ Garth Stein
In Seattle we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life. Our winters are not cold and our summers are not hot and we congratulate ourselves for choosing such a spectacular place to rest our heads and raise our chickens.
~ Garth Stein
The very term "skid row" comes from Seattle's skid road, a logging skid at the center of a large liquor and prostitution industry.)
~ Bruce Barcott
Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture at a young age, traveling back and forth across the border for skating competitions as a youngster.
~ Apolo Ohno
As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
~ Adam Jones
I'm going to say this - to the people in Seattle, to all the people in Seattle that trust me, that believe in me - I'm going to say this: I'm not going to disappoint anybody.
~ Felix Hernandez
When I went to Seattle, it was quite a quiet town and we made it the biggest soccer following in America. We didn't have the paparazzi, though, and I needed that at the time.
~ Freddie Ljungberg
When I went back home to Seattle after filming 'Dune' in Mexico, I thought, 'Did this really happen?'
~ Kyle MacLachlan
I think that everyone in Seattle, their daily existence, is enriched by all the charitable giving that is courtesy of Microsoft.
~ Maria Semple