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.
Sexual Perversity in Chicago.
— 1976 Title of play.
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
I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
ernest hemingway— A Farewell to Arms, Ch. 27 (1929)
Whenever I got a shot, the team that selected me, I just promised myself that I would give them something that they wouldn't regret... The Chicago Bears drafted me, and I'm going to make sure they're not second-guessing themselves about that.
devin hester— During the Super Bowl interviews.
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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.
Chicago is not the most corrupt American city, it's the most theatrically corrupt.
studs terkel— The Dick Cavett Show (9 June 1978)
I'm not joking when I refer to our country as the United States of Amnesia, although I was corrected recently by Studs Terkel out of Chicago. And he said, “Gore, it's not the United States of Amnesia; it's the United States of Alzheimer's.”
studs terkel— Gore Vidal in an Interview with Paul Jay, The Real News, (5 July 2009)
[On boxing] [For] The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.
jennifer beals— Interview in Windy City Pride (4 February 2011)
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)
I have struck a city a real city and they call it Chicago… Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
rudyard kipling— Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea - Letters of Travel [1]
Probably one of the best things that ever happened to me was finding a little article in the Chicago Tribune that mentioned that you could go to Shimer without finishing high school. This was at a point when I was desperate to get away from home. I discovered that Shimer was a place where people were really into ideas and cared about things, not just the superficial things that people were into in high school.
— Laurie Spiegel, "Alumni Profiles: Laurie Spiegel", 2006.
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— Fred Allen, Much Ado About Me (1956)
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
