Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon Bethune

You know how Chicago works? You're either on United or American; that's it, ... You take what they give you at the same fare, which means the whole United States would look like Chicago.

Hamish Bowles

My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

Parker Young

Dinner for me is usually some version of chicken or fish - I love salmon - with grilled vegetables and salad.

Diego Della Valle

There is a time to be chic and sportive, there is a time to be sexy and feminine, but it's hard to find the balance, and Tod's has done that.

While it's serious to individual producers, from a national perspective, Katrina won't have much impact, ... The consumer won't feel it. Millions of chickens have been lost, but in Mississippi alone, you slaughter 5 million a day.

Erik Estrada

Well yeah, it fits. I let it out a little, hey I was a spring chicken then.

We've picked up a lot of dead chickens in our day. We knew there had to be some easier way to do it.

We are drafting a letter we are sending to all the companies in the Chicago metro area. The letter includes a description of the importance of the march and gives workers something they can walk into human resources with.

Two Hot Chicks Make Five Hot Chicken Dishes

The reason the Yankees never lay an egg is because they don't operate on chicken feed.

Paula Abdul

Extremely ambitious. You showed the rocker chick that you were.

Dan Wheldon

We obviously lost some ground toward the championship, which makes Chicago a very important race, ... I'm hoping we can get back in the swing of things.

Julius Peppers

Who would have thought that vaunted Chicago defense would have given up 29?

Robert Harris

Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that can be taught. There is no standard way of doing it, just as there is no means of telling, while you're doing it, whether you're doing it well or badly. And merely because you've done it well once doesn't mean you can do it well again.

Dave Eggers

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

David Mamet

In Chicago, we love our crooks!

There's always the danger when you have influenzas that infect chickens, that when you have the close quarters of chickens spreading from one to another and occasionally a human coming into close contact, that there will be the jumping of species from a chicken to a human. This is not something new.

The difference between H7N9 and H5N1, is that H5N1 kills chickens very rapidly, so it is easy to identify where the infected flocks of chickens are. H7N9 doesn't make the chicken sick, so it has been difficult to pinpoint where the infected chickens are.

We see it a lot better. Over the past couple of days, that's been the focus. I think we've gotten better at it already. Not that we're the Chicago Bulls, but we've gotten a lot better since the Big East tournament. Everyone is contributing more, whether it's a hard cut or the right screen, it's a collection of everything.

Ozzie Guillen

We're the 2006 Chicago White Sox, not the 2005.

Alison Goldfrapp

I think my cat is adorable, and I probably give it too much fresh chicken. Maybe if I had a child, I'd be giving the chicken to the child.

Adam Beach

I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.

We had a couple of breakdowns on offense. We were pretty patient in the first half, but in the fourth quarter we kind of ran around like chickens with their heads cut off, trying to find a shot. That was the difference.

I like to think that Harry Cohn is having a somewhat difficult time sleeping in his grave thinking of a chick with a white shag rug taking over his space.

Maya Angelou

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

Mark Farner

There are quite a few Muslims on the team. If we have pork, there's always two other items to choose from. If we have a barbecued pork sandwich on the menu, we're also offering a fish and a chicken item.

You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.

Ella Henderson

I'm not a fussy eater, but when I'm travelling, I try to stick to the same regime and just have my chicken and my mash and broccoli. Otherwise, you start eating all these funny delicacies, and it makes your tummy turn upside down.

Graham Moore

My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.

Joel Salatin

The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.

Allison Tolman

I moved to Chicago when I was 28, and I wasn't completely idealistic about going to Second City and making a living from comedy, but I knew it would be great for the resume.

Malcolm X

Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.

Airto Moreira

This recording was very special in the sense that I was free to create and play my best. Chick is a very intelligent person and sensitive to people and situations. ... The way he communicates is not going to close your mind, it's going to open your mind.