Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arne Duncan

This grant is really an investment in our collective future. It will help create great new schools in Chicago that will produce the kind of students who can one day grow up and lead companies like Abbott.

Daniel Clowes

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

Thomas Middleditch

T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

Bernard Harcourt

My sense is that 'business as usual' in Chicago politics is ripe for investigation.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I did see 'Les Miz' and I thought it was just incredible. Totally incredible. I love 'Chicago,' too.

Joey Bishop

I love Chicago. I got on a bus and asked the driver, Do you go to the Loop? He said, No, I go beep-beep!

Joe Bastianich

There are many things I'm looking forward to in 2013, both personally and professionally. Plans for new restaurants in the U.S., including Eataly Chicago, are underway, and I'm gearing up for the 2013 Ironman world championships in Hawaii - if I'm lucky enough to get a spot!

Herbie Hancock

When I was a kid, I won a contest and played a Mozart concerto with the Chicago Symphony, and I've written some movie scores, and I've been listening to orchestral music for years.

Allison Tolman

I did a lot of commercial and theater work when I got out of school and was living in Dallas, and I moved to Chicago to go through the Second City Conservatory Program.

Brian Peterson

Kurt only gave up four points on his feet in 34 matches. The only other points he gave up were from releases. Nobody scored on him at districts or at state. This is a high school kid who doesn't make mistakes or get out of position. He wrestled all season at an extremely high level.

Navneet Sikera

The situation has more or less returned to normal.

Mark Pope

Every year, when I'm with a new team, that's one less team that doesn't know that I can't play.

Robert Kiyosaki

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Jim Pate

We'll need no less than 10 volunteers a day and no more than 25 a day, and they must be prepared to be self-sufficient for one to two weeks.

Faith Hill

There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point. It will encompass much.

Robert H. Connelly

If you've had a turbulent August/September period, ... It's less likely you're going to get sucker-punched in October.

Chad Brown

You've got to realize there are 31 other teams in the NFL, so you can't get discouraged and let your play lessen in any way, ... Everything you do (in practice) is on film and people are going to watch that film, so you've got to be prepared to play even if this is not the place where you'll end up playing.

David Healy

It's a moderate plus to their finances. Hertz has become kind of a noncore operation for them, a much less important outlet.

Francis Bacon

The world 's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span.

Rashad Anderson

People say we may lose this tournament because of lapses. It's not happening.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Claire Coffee

'The West Wing' was really important for me for a lot of reasons. It was the first thing I did when I got out to Los Angeles. I'd just finished school, and I was so naive.

Daniel Handler

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

Bobby Baldwin

The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.

Bob Hamley

You find out more about people when you lose than you do when you're winning. We're trying to find our identity.

Jay Hakkinen

There's just rules to what you're doing. No matter what's happening, you need to be aware, and if you lose that awareness, you shouldn't have a rifle in your hand.

Dustin Pedroia

I don't like losing at anything. Why should I?

Chuck Amato

I've talked to our trainers and managers. If we can't get (the running backs) in the game, we'll let them run the water out during timeouts. That way I can tell their parents they got on the field.

Margaret Atwood

They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to

Jhumpa Lahiri

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

Wendy McGonigal

A lot of it has to do with parents who smoke. It was a part of their culture.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Ed Miliband

I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

Shaw Wu

We all touch Windows at work or at school, whether we like it or not.

Alexandra Adornetto

At one school I visited, everyone had read 'Halo,' and they were all dressed up as angels - with halos!

Peter Uihlein

I was born in Massachusetts. I live in Stillwater. I went to school in Florida.

Seth Rogen

My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.'

Terry Pratchett

The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect

Sophocles

True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills

Fanny Kemble

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

Jay Leno

Donald Trump says he’s President Obama’s worst nightmare. That’s not true. Having to make a decision is Obama’s worst nightmare.

Jonathan Swift

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

Robert Brown

Where had I been now if the worst befell? / And here we are riding, she and I.

Mark Victor Hansen

Even in the worst depression, 25% of businesses are booming - in your industry find out what they’re doing and do it.

Gustave Flaubert

The future is the worst thing about the present.

Tom Wopat

It's not the worst thing in the world,