Chicago Quotes
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In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.
s. i. hayakawa— pp. 27-28 (The Pitfalls of Drama)
I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.
fred allen— Much Ado About Me (1956)
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
Saul Bellow— Humboldt's Gift (1975, pg. 452)
I am an American, Chicago born — Chicago, that somber city — and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.
Saul Bellow— Ch. 1 (opening line)
Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went to San Francisco by train, leaving Boston on a Wednesday morning in June and, then after lunch in New York, boarding Amtrak’s Broadway to Chicago.
andre dubus— Railroad Sketches
Chicago 1968 taught one how close any civilized country is to berserkness at all times; also how terrorism, even silly terrorism, strengthens the cops more than anyone. Yet already this European-style history lesson has been watered down by consensus into something crazy we did in the sixties, just as we "did" McCarthyism in the fifties. As if a nation changes its nature completely every ten years; as if social forces were as evanescent as hula hoops or skateboards, instead of as remorseless as glaciers.
wilfrid sheed— "Chicago on My Mind" (1973), p. 266
My thanks to you alland now it's on to Chicago, and let's win there.
— 1968 Last public remark after winning the Californian primary for the Democratic presidential nomination in Los Angeles, before being assassinated as he left the rally, 4 Jun.
... and the art was in every corner and wall… a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich in detail, painted by a student of the Fine Arts Academy of Chicago named Santiago Martinez; a name to remember…
santiago martínez delgado— Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt (Inauguration day of the 1933 Chicago International Fair)
— FDR Library, Folio 345 - visit of Mrs Roosevelt to the fair P. 56
…Young Colombia Santiago Martínez made a mural in the 3rd pavilion showing much talent, He is a student at the academy of fine arts in Chicago, and a great candidate to come to our lectures.
santiago martínez delgado— Diego Rivera
— letter to a gallery in NY --- New York city History Academy Archives
Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City.
luis a. ferré— On the subject of the Puerto Rican diaspora to a United States Senate committee in 1998, as quoted by the New York Times.
On State Street, that great street, I just want to sayThey do things they don't do on BroadwayThey have the time, the time of their lifeI saw a man, he danced with his wifeIn Chicago, Chicago my home town.
fred fisher— Song Chicago (1922)
We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools.
kenneth griffin— Video commentary featured on website of the Chicago Public Education Fund
This is a day that I had hoped would never come. It has to be the toughest day in the history of the Chicago Bulls. It's a tough day for Chicago.
— Bulls Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, quoted in "Michael Jordan Retirement Press Conference" (transcript). NBA Media Ventures. 1999-01-13. Retrieved on 2006-11-22.
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
— "Chicago Public Library Foundation". Retrieved on 2007-12-20.
All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.
bobby seale— Interview with The Guardian (February 1970)
... name association was big, as were my presumed interests in vaudeville and politics. In St. Louis the Bow tie was characterized as "very Charlie McCarthy", while in Chicago a young man defined it as "the pierced eyebrow of the Republican party".
david sedaris— On stereotypes of bowtie wearers, Sedaris, David (2008). "Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie?". When You Are Engulfed in Flames. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0316143472.
I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine."
conor oberst— The Calendar Hung Itself
It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
dan quayle— If Quayle said this, he would only be repeating a phrase that first appeared in print approximately 100 years earlier. See: Staff writer (13 May 1889) "The Great State of Chicago," Chicago Daily Tribune; Staff writer (13 April 1895) "The State of Chicago," New York Times; Norman Mailer (1968) Miami and the Siege of Chicago
A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.
bertrand russell— Ch. 8: Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness.
I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.
George Will— Interview with Ken Burns in the PBS documentary Baseball
They have the time The time or their life I saw a man He danced with his wife In Chicago, my home town.
— Song "Chicago" (lyrics Sammy Cahn) (Quotes)
They have the time The time or their life I saw a man He danced with his wife In Chicago, my home town.
— Song "Chicago" (lyrics Fred Fisher) (Sourced)
…Young Colombia Santiago Martínez made a mural in the 3rd pavilion showing much talent, He is a student at the academy of fine arts in Chicago, and a great candidate to come to our lectures.
— Diego Rivera
— letter to a gallery in NY --- New York city History Academy Archives
Murder, red-handed murder, is so popular in Chicago today that you cannot go on the principal streets without seeing the signs hanging out by the dozens of scoundrels in the shape of men who stand ready to commit the murder of an unborn innocent for $5 and upward.
— Anonymous speaker, from the Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Convention of the American Association of Spiritualists, 1873 [60].
Although Wales himself had made his personal fortune as a futures trader in Chicago in the 1990s, he wasn't the one funding Nupedia. This was done through one of Wales's less altruistic ventures, a Web portal called Bomis.com that featured, among other items, soft-core pornography.
— Jeff Howe (2008). Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business. Crown Business. pp. 58-60. ISBN 0307449327.
Before deciding what the company would really do, the men had to settle on a name. From working in the Chicago business world, Wales jokingly referred to them as 'bitter old men in suits.' The name stuck in the form of an acronym, BOMIS, although officially both men say the name stands for nothing.
— Susan Meyer (2012). Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia. Rosen Pub Group. pp. 29-35, 56-58, 84-86. ISBN 978-1448869121.
"My forefather kindled the first fire at Detroit; from thence, he extended his lines to the head waters of Scioto; from thence, to its mouth; from thence, down the Ohio, to the mouth of the Wabash, and from thence to Chicago, on lake Michigan"
— Claiming tribal lands at the Treaty of Greenville (American State Papers, Indian Affairs, vol. 1, pp. 570-571; Dft. Ex. 96).
Since the late Chicago outrages I have been patronizingly told how unfortunate it is that the Boston Anarchists, standing as they do for peace , and being the first to denounce violence , should suffer themselves to be confounded with those bloody mobbists who desecrate the true principles of Anarchism through deeds which Liberty emphatically repudiates. On the whole, the term Anarchy is the proper one. It simply means opposed to the arbitrary rule of self-elected usurpers outside of the Individual .
— Henry Appleton, in The Boston Anarchists (1886) in Liberty Vol. IV, No. 3 (22 May 1886)]
Austin White, Chicago, Ill., 1918 and 1944. This is the last time I want to write my name here.
— Inscription found near Verdun, France by a reporter for Yank magazine (a magazine for the soldiers). Yank Magazine
