Famous Quotes & Sayings

They pulled those (departments) with specialty teams, ... Chicago was sent, because they had personnel trained confined space and trench rescues. We were put on standby and were ready to respond that night but they told us at the last minute they didn't need us.

A lot of people think of Chicago when you say we're turning the river green.

This isn't about Tommy. This isn't about getting him more publicity, about impressing people, about getting the media here (two Chicago TV stations covered the event). It's about giving back.

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

There will always be cougars outside. It's such a chick thing to think that life should just go on forever.

There's a complete distaste in the Western mind for even seeing that chicken foot.

Jenna Marbles

There's a big difference between me and other YouTubers - a lot of them have big, concrete plans. I'm still this weird chicken with my head cut off. I don't know what I want to do next and haven't known that since I started.

This is what we should do when it's 54 degrees in Chicago in January.

Dick Durbin

A proud day for Chicago and a great day for Washington.

As a chef and as a father, I am very upset by what's on the menu at most schools: chicken nuggets and tater tots and ketchup and pizza.

Christine Lahti

Also, I thought the writing, on Chicago Hope in particular, was far superior to a lot of the feature-film scripts that I had been getting anyway.

You don't want to be Chicken Little and say, 'The sky is falling,' because right now we're in pretty good shape.

Frank Perdue

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

Fred Armisen

I lived in Chicago, but the music I was inspired by was from D. C.

George Stigler

In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.

Jeff Bridges

I'm not counting any chickens.

Frank Gehry

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

If, for some reason, these guys don't come to work tomorrow, then we're not moving chickens. The next time you go to Bojangles', you're going to pay more for your chicken. Chicken farmers would suffer because they couldn't get their chicken to market. It would be devastating to our industry.

Jose Contreras

I dedicate this to Chicago, ... This is for the fans of Chicago who have waited so long. I know they deserve it because they've stood by me when I was pitching bad.

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.

Ice is pretty expensive, but it's a lot more expensive in Chicago or Detroit than it is here. So, we can get a lot more ice time, and they can practice more.

I am very proud and honored to be given the opportunity to lead the Chicago Fire organization in the future.

Jim Gaffigan

I grew up 45 minutes outside of Chicago.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

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

Culling of chickens will continue today and tomorrow.

And though there?s no research, as a nice Jewish boy, I can say chicken soup is a good source of protein, and the collagen from the joints of the chicken is an immune stimulant. It can be quite helpful as a placebo.

Ozzie Guillen

Enjoy it. Enjoy it. Have a great time, ... Don't get too crazy in the street. Be careful. I know people are going wild right now. ... Feel proud about this team. Feel proud about what we did. I know what we want to do, but I think Chicago fans should feel real proud.

Feathers sticking out of cages are being removed from chicken cages and from all over the ground and being burned.

Ozzie Guillen

El Duque has a year left on his contract with Chicago and hopefully in that year we can make the most of him because he's a winner and knows what he needs to do on the mound.

Oprah Winfrey

Everybody who's ever been snubbed because you were not chic enough or the right class or the right color or whatever ? I don't know what it was ? you know that that is very humiliating and that is exactly what happened to me.

Every record, you want it to be different, and you write differently in different cities. We wrote a song in Spain, we wrote a song in Chicago ... and when you write lyrics on the road they tend to be more psychedelic.

Thomas Frank

As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city's South Side, back in 2005.

Mike Quigley

Whether I'm reading a national publication or one of my local Chicago newspapers, I don't need to turn too many pages before I stumble upon another scandal. Not only do ethics violations deteriorate the public trust, but they also disrupt and undermine legitimate debate and policy.