331 Quotes About Chicago

Big-shot town, small-shot town, jet-propelled old-fashioned town, by old-world hands with new-world tools built into a place whose heartbeat carries farther than its shout, whose whispering in the night sounds less hollow than its roistering noontime laugh: they have builded a heavy-shouldered laughter here who went to work too young.

Well, if you’re a native Chicagoan, you know how dumb he [Dr. Robert Hartley] is. He gets on the Ravenswood El, he goes past his stop on Sheridan Road, he gets off in Evanston, where the El is on the ground, and then he walks back 55 blocks to his apartment. Now, would you want to have that man as a psychologist? A man who misses his stop every day?

I wish I'd be murdered...Then I'd never have to worry again. When you die, you become perfect. I'd be like Princess Diana. Everyone loves her now.

She knew there was a big Chicagofar off, where all the trains ran.

Some people around here say that we're a Ferris wheel away from being somewhere.

Sir Thomas frowned. "I am afraid that your nephew is prejudiced against that great country," he said to Lady Agatha. I have traveled all over it, in cars provided by the directors, who, in such matters, are extremely civil. I assure you that it is an education to visit it.""But must we really see Chicago in order to be educated?" asked Mr. Erskine, plaintively. "I don't feel up to the journey.

I want you so bad it physically hurts not to touch you.

Dacă mi-ar fi dat să aleg între a fi obligat să trăiesc în Molokai tot restul vieții, sau în East End-ul Londrei, East Side-ul New Yorkului sau Stockyard-ul Chicago-ului, aş alege Molokai-ul fără să şovăi. Aş prefera un singur an în Molokai pentru cinci ani de viață în oricare din celelalte locuri amintite - haznale ale degradării şi mizeriei umane.

What keeps a poor child in Appalachia poor is not what keeps a poor child in Chicago poor - even if from a distance, the outcomes look the same. And what keeps an able-bodied black woman poor is not what keeps a disabled white man poor, even if the outcomes look the same.