Quotes About Chicago

I have a Chicago personality, which means that just because I'm friends with one person, I don't assume I'm friends with his friends.

I think I ate at the John Hancock building - I loved the view.

Atlanta is definitely where it's at. I still go back to Chicago a lot though, I got family there.

I actually think I learned to write concisely working for an encyclopedia company in Chicago.

Dropped him like a hammered steer in a Chicago slaughterhouse. Boz

It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago

In the mid-1960s, two soon-to-be-legendary University of Chicago social scientists—Jacob Getzels and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi—began studying the elusive subject of creativity.

I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've got a Chicago one worth $100.

I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago.

Whether I'm reading a national publication or one of my local Chicago newspapers, I don't need to turn too many pages before I stumble upon another scandal. Not only do ethics violations deteriorate the public trust, but they also disrupt and undermine legitimate debate and policy.

Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.

As big a problem as gun violence is for Chicago, it is not beyond our ability to solve. Ending this string of tragedies is our top priority as a city. We are infusing our police department with the manpower, technology and training to meet this challenge head on.

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

Chicago, I feel, is a microcosm for the segregated, violent environment that is America. I try to not only speak about these things in music, but also try to address these things in real life tangibly with action.

Chicago is complicated and complex and very violent but also very rich with history and tradition and art and culture - it's all these things.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

Audiences must be educated, too -- in a very gentle way, of course, but the relation of the audience to music is very mobile, very different. Certainly a Chicago audience can react differently from a Paris audience or from a Rome audience.

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

At Chicago I offer a course on Emotion, Reason and the Law that law students just love. But I am not there as a lawyer, my job is to teach philosophy.

Feels like a long time ago, but not so far in the past that I don't remember the way that Chicago cold slipped past your bones, I swear. That wind coming off the water? What?!

Two Types Excitable A woman was depressed and distraught for days after losing her pen. Then she became so excited about an ad for a shoe sale that she drove three hours to a shoe store in Chicago. Phlegmatic A man spotted a fire in a dormitory one evening, and walked away to look for an extinguisher in another building. He found the extinguisher, and walked back to the fire with it.

She knows she is in Chicago. But she does not yet realize that she is in Illinois.

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

Chicago is known as the Windy City, and Montana is called the Big Sky State, so I think that we should somehow combine the two to create the ultimate kite-flying experience.