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Quotes About Seattle

I do not see Windows Phones anywhere in the world except Seattle.
~ Robert Scoble
I feel thankful for the Seattle organization and the city. The fans embraced me right away, and I had a great time there.
~ Robinson Cano
I went to college and did theatre. After that, I spent about three years in Seattle doing French theater and community theater and sorting it all out. Then I applied to graduate school and got accepted, so I started pursuing my master's in theatre at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.
~ Darby Stanchfield
The only place I remember him complaining about was the Kingdome in Seattle, when the Mariners joined the American League in '77. But that was understandable. Everybody hated that place.
~ Ron Blomberg
My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.
~ Ron Reagan
It rained a lot in Seattle. What a hello an understatement that was.
~ Sandra Brown
I started drag in Portland, Oregon, but I don't feel that I came to life as a drag queen until I started working in Seattle. That's what really lit the rocket fuel in my career.
~ Jinkx Monsoon
That openness to experimentation in Seattle is how I learned a drag queen doesn't have to just be in her pageant gear and lip syncing to top 40. Drag can be off-the-wall, ridiculous, profound.
~ Jinkx Monsoon
I grew up outside of Seattle and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of questioning and guilt. Almost an 'anti-ambition.'
~ Carrie Brownstein
When friends come over from Europe, they think it's going to be rainy in Seattle but it's beautiful. It's a hidden pearl. And people here respect your private life.
~ Freddie Ljungberg
The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.
~ Jonathan Raban
My football do-over is when I went to Seattle and had both jobs as coach and general manager.
~ Mike Holmgren
I went to the University of Washington in Seattle. This was a very good place to study, and I learned a lot. But it wasn't the right place for my Ph.D.
~ Robert Mundell
I did 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' two years in a row in the winter in Seattle, and that was an amazing experience both times.
~ Jinkx Monsoon
I'm not super-polite or civil - I try to be civil, but I'm not into Seattle's niceties, and I'm not hugely wired into Seattle's natural beauty.
~ David Shields
Everybody in Seattle thought I was the chosen one, musically wise. You know, if anyone was going to make it, it was going to be that guy.
~ Duff McKagan
It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle.
~ Krist Novoselic
To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.
~ Tom Robbins
Pike Place Market sells fresh seafood and produce – ingredients featured in Seattle's local restaurants.  
~ Anne Vipond
En el mercado de Pike Place, en Seattle, todavía se puede visitar el primer Starbucks. Pero es un poco raro, no parece un Starbucks. El logo es diferente, y la distribución también.
~ Seth Godin
Seattle is Sweden! Extremely liberal, progressive, and very white, with a strong undercurrent of racism.
~ Sherman Alexie
You look so out of your element. (Savitar) I am out of my element. Much like you in a Seattle Goth club. (Acheron) I'm never out of my element, Atlantean. And it must be dire indeed to get you in shorties, and on a board. One day I'm actually going to get you to say 'Rad four-mill steamer, dude! (Savitar)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I tried gimmicky stuff 'cause I wanted to get some attention, and remember, you know, in the rap world Seattle was a cave. There was no light.
~ Sir Mix-a-Lot
I'm not going to say I'm not a fan, but I'm a fan of house music, essentially, and kind of indie, and I was always into the kind of sub-pop Seattle Mud Honey and Pearl Jam kind of sound. But my kind of big love was house music ever since I was 15/16, going to raves when I was 15 or 16 years old and not going to school, like a naughty boy.
~ Nick Frost