Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Armisen

I lived in Chicago, but the music I was inspired by was from D. C.

Jack Adams

I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

Lionel Hampton

Chicago was jazzy, man, jazzy - they had all the great jazz men.

Chicago to Milwaukee, Detroit and Cincinnati are the most popular runs.

Flip Saunders

Chicago plays physical. They play hard. I think that they found out that if they just let us do what we want to do, we can be very effective. So they tried to turn it into a muck it, grind-it-up type game.

Harry Caray

Chicago people are kind of fatalistic, but they continue to hope that somehow, some way the Cubs will shock even them and win it just one time. Their fatalism allows them to enjoy the team's success, knowing that one horrible thing will happen down the line to rip the rug out from underneath them.

Robert Klein

Chicago Minuteman Project Holds Summit on National Security

Chicago is tough-minded city. Similar to New York, Boston, Philly,

Chicago is such a main hub for transportation, and the way our railroad structure is set up, it makes the most sense to locate near or around the city.

Chicago is one of those race tracks that you love to go to. It's just incredible. The weather should be outstanding.

Scott Sanders

Chicago is a terrific theater market. It's also the home of our director, Gary Griffin, and it wouldn't go unnoticed that it's also the home of Oprah Winfrey.

Chicago is a key market for us in the United States as the focal point of the Midwest. We are excited to be placing a franchise here and to have such a strong ownership group.

Chicago is a great city. We think we're better, particularly for basketball.

Rick Bayless

Chicago is a city of neighborhoods, and I love that. It's cool to have different foods from all over the world within a stone's throw of my house.

Chicago has so many players, and I've recruited Illinois for nine years at Eastern Illinois and Southern Illinois. Players in Chicago -- really good players -- can fall under the radar because there's so many guys there.

Eric Chavez

Chicago had it. And you look at a team like the Angels, going back to when they won it all in 2002, they had it, too. They still do, as a matter of fact. They've had it for a long time, and they've done a lot of winning.

Chicago could have a national and international effect.

By the time I got to Chicago with 'Gershwin' I knew the stamina required, ... But this show has a whole different set of demands -- it's really a concert -- and I won't know how well I can sustain six performances a week until I perform it for a while.

Hannibal Buress

In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.

Neil Gaiman

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.

The Norris is delighted to present the West Suburban Symphony Orchestra and Singers. This concert not only showcases one of the finest classical ensembles in the Chicago area, but it offers the local community a perfect way to observe the historic milestone of Mozart's 250th birthday.

Tim Thomas

That is what you work for. The whole Chicago situation was what it was -- pretty much nothing. I spent that time wisely working out and constantly shooting and getting prepared for this situation right here.

Supervalu has offered to sell off its Cub Food stores in Chicago where it competes with (Albertsons') Jewel chain.

It's like if you were gonna eat at home. You're gonna make a few vegetables and potatoes to pass around the table and I think that's kind of the gist of what a Chicago steak house is. We have a little motto here: we're not a steak house, we're a steak home.

Studs Terkel

Studs could have grown up in New York, Chicago or any dirty, industrial city full of conflict, hustle and color. He could definitely not have grown up in San Francisco or L.A.

Mike Nichols

It took me forever, learning improvisation, because I had studied with Lee Strasberg - I dropped out of Chicago and went to his classes in New York for a couple of years, once or twice a week. What I didn't realize was I was learning directing because he wasn't all that good about acting, not for me.

It will give us more time to focus. We had a lot of time off during the Christmas holidays, but we were able to stay focused and come back and win the holiday tournament at Chicago State.

Orlando Hernandez

They are not my teammates anymore. My teammates are the ones here with me, the Chicago White Sox. It's another team now. I wanted this victory, like all of them. I don't like to lose.

They are not going to take us lightly. We played our hardest and we have a great deal of respect for the entire East Chicago program. We have a long history with East Chicago and we're just going to try to survive our first game, then our next, then our next.

Antoine Walker

It was like playing the Chicago Celtics. I like their uniforms. They look good, and they play good in their retro uniforms, too. Our retro uniforms don't work too good for us.

I've had Chicago pizza, Domino's pizza and pizza made at home. I never had New York pizza, but it is the best.

Daniel Smith

It's very, very important symbolically to have Chicago become smoke free because it's the leader in the Midwest and it will have a trickle down effect. This is part of a national trend this is just now starting in the Midwest.

Nick Cannon

It's just that when I filmed 'Shall We Dance' in Chicago with Jennifer Lopez, she didn't see the need to do a love scene with me.