Quotes tagged ‘Chicago’

“A 104-year-old Chicago woman is hoping to be certified as the oldest person to ever skydive after leaving her walker on the ground and making a tandem jump in northern Illinois.”

— AP News, apnews.com

“You never thought I could carry the show, did you?”

— Joel Fields, Steven Levenson, Gwen Verdon, Michelle Williams, imdb.com

“Koko Taylor walked up on John Henry took the hammer right out his hand and bent it and twisted it into a fine necklace and took him to a real nice dinner. Koko Taylor had twelve thousand wigs. One she never wore. Just kept at home. Was enchanted, spun from gold and full of rubies, and sang to her at…”

— Eve L. Ewing, apmpodcasts.org

“I used to worry a lot about who I'd be when I grew up. You know, like how much money I'd make or, umm, like some day I'd become some big deal. Sometimes, the thing you want most doesn't happen. And sometimes, the thing you never expect does. Like giving up my job in Chicago and everything and decidi…”

— Charles Randolph, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, James Randall, George Segal, imdb.com

“Chicago is superior to cities such as Boston, which had no urban planning whatsoever and whose streets resemble a bowl of spaghetti. Being eaten by Satan.”

— Melanie LaForce, amazon.com

“Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.'”

— Richard Maibaum, Paul Dehn, Auric Goldfinger, Gert Frobe, imdb.com

“In Chicago, you need your friends three times: at your wedding, your wake, and your first indictment.”

— Leonard Dick, Will Gardner, Josh Charles, imdb.com

“I have equipped you with a mechanical voice box that will disguise your voice and make you sound like a man. I've also given you a micropenis, like most Chicago men.”

— Judah Miller, Roger (voice), Seth MacFarlane, imdb.com

“Shirley: She went to Chicago and became a nun. I stayed in Milwaukee and became a bimbo. Laverne: You're no bimbo, Shirl. Shirley: Yes, I am. Compared to her, I'm a bimbo. Laverne: She's a nun. Compared to her, Eleanor Roosevelt's a bimbo.”

— Garry Marshall, Laverne De Fazio, Penny Marshall, imdb.com

“I make money by supplying a public demand. If I break the law, my customers…of the best people in Chicago are as guilty as me.”

— Al Capone, smithsonianmag.com

“I’m not going to sleep. I’m not going to do anything else the rest of the weekend. I won’t go to bed until Monday afternoon. I’m going to ‘studio.’. It’s homework, an architect’s version of final exams. I’m designing a mixed-use hybrid—a 750,000-to-1,000,000-square-foot facility next to the John Han…”

— Matt Kleinmann, www2.ljworld.com

“Why come to Chicago if you can't stay up all night playing poker? Makes it worth the time.”

— George Peppard, rogerebert.com

“Dean: So please tell us you have actual good news. Bobby: Chicago is about to be wiped off the map. Storm of the millennium. Sets off a daisy chain of natural disasters. Three million people are gonna die. Castiel: I don't understand your definition of good news.”

— Sera Gamble, Dean Winchester, Jensen Ackles, imdb.com

“You wanna know how many women I've slept with over the last 10 years?…Hundreds! Maybe more, I don't know. I barely see their faces. I married Wendy because I was lonely. Because I got tired of the endless disconnect. It was just a sad time-out. Because when I'm inside someone, there's only one face…”

— Kurt Sutter, Jax Teller, Charlie Hunnam, imdb.com

“Parents never forget a foul-up. I once left a jacket on the bus when I was fourteen. Last week I'm flying to Chicago to do a show, ‘Make sure you hang on to your jacket.’”

— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“I’m not going to lie and say that there is just one solution that will cut down on gang violence. We did it, though. We showed up and we cared. It is really that simple.”

— Tamar Manasseh, nytimes.com

“This has always been the role of the black mother in the community. We watch the kids. All of them. This is that ‘village’ that we hear so much about but that has somehow been forgotten.”

— Tamar Manasseh, nytimes.com

“I am a black, Jewish woman from Chicago. Since the truth about my city will never come out of this White House, I’ll tell it myself.”

— Tamar Manasseh, nytimes.com

“It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.”

— Dan Quayle, books.google.com

“You’ll have 400 to 500 people die in Chicago like every year. That’s not amazing. That’s fucking insane. How can that many people die in a year, you know what I’m saying?”

— Schoolboy Q, billboard.com