Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Caray

Chicago people are kind of fatalistic, but they continue to hope that somehow, some way the Cubs will shock even them and win it just one time. Their fatalism allows them to enjoy the team's success, knowing that one horrible thing will happen down the line to rip the rug out from underneath them.

Robert Klein

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Chicago is tough-minded city. Similar to New York, Boston, Philly,

Chicago is such a main hub for transportation, and the way our railroad structure is set up, it makes the most sense to locate near or around the city.

Chicago is one of those race tracks that you love to go to. It's just incredible. The weather should be outstanding.

Scott Sanders

Chicago is a terrific theater market. It's also the home of our director, Gary Griffin, and it wouldn't go unnoticed that it's also the home of Oprah Winfrey.

Chicago is a key market for us in the United States as the focal point of the Midwest. We are excited to be placing a franchise here and to have such a strong ownership group.

Chicago is a great city. We think we're better, particularly for basketball.

Rick Bayless

Chicago is a city of neighborhoods, and I love that. It's cool to have different foods from all over the world within a stone's throw of my house.

Chicago has so many players, and I've recruited Illinois for nine years at Eastern Illinois and Southern Illinois. Players in Chicago -- really good players -- can fall under the radar because there's so many guys there.

Eric Chavez

Chicago had it. And you look at a team like the Angels, going back to when they won it all in 2002, they had it, too. They still do, as a matter of fact. They've had it for a long time, and they've done a lot of winning.

Chicago could have a national and international effect.

Jeff Bridges

I'm not counting any chickens.

By the time I got to Chicago with 'Gershwin' I knew the stamina required, ... But this show has a whole different set of demands -- it's really a concert -- and I won't know how well I can sustain six performances a week until I perform it for a while.

Hannibal Buress

In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.

How can you let the fox guard the chicken coop like that? It doesn't make any sense.

Jack Adams

I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

People in Chicago walk past coyotes every day and never see them. The population has increased rapidly.

Marjorie Gubelmann

My parents loved music, and my father would come home with cassette tapes of Chic and the Village People and Barbra Streisand. We had all these sounds always going. We never had somber music - always upbeat.

It is better to be the head of chicken than the rear end of an ox

The 65 percent solution is the equivalent of a chicken in every pot.

Jeremih

My competition keeps me driven. My family and son and being home in Chicago keeps me humble, and my fans. They're the reason why I'm going hard and making sure everyone knows how to say my name.

My boy's in 4?H. He needed chicks to raise. He only needed a pair, but we got extra.

I won't say Pete Rose is desperate to get into a hall of fame, but I saw him renting a chicken suit.

We recorded it at a place called Prairie Sun Studios, and it's an old chicken farm, so there were all these free range chickens running around.

Carolina Herrera

You can be very feminine and be a leader. Christine Lagarde, she's very chic and she dresses very well, and she's a woman. And she has a lot of power.

Frank Perdue

If you can differentiate a dead chicken, you can differentiate anything.

Daniel Barenboim

I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.

Chris Shelton

He's nasty. That's why the Yankees went and got him and that's why Chicago has him now. He's going to be huge for them in the playoffs.

Heston Blumenthal

I cook every Sunday, as the restaurant's closed then, and I'll always do a roast chicken or something and sit down with the family.

Rick Carlisle

Our undoing was in the first half. I thought we played really well, really hard and really together. It's hard to dig yourself out of that big of a hole. We have to learn something from the last two games. We got fortunate in Chicago because we were able to pull it out when we played a poor first half. But we weren't able to get over the hump (Monday).

The pig and the chicken were on their way to breakfast, trying to decide what to have. When chicken said, ''Let's have ham and eggs.'' The pig then replied, ''That's fine for you, it's a small donation on your part, but it's a total sacrifice for me.''

Neil Young

The people at the Chicago Tribune should be held responsible for this piece of crap,