#chicago

I must have your promise, Coach, that you won't hurt her." "I promise." "You spoke a bit too quickly for my taste. I don't quite believe you." "I'm a man of my word, and I promise that I won't hurt her.When I murder her, I'll do it real quick, so she won't feel a thing." Viktor sighed. "That's exactly what I was afraid of. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#humor #susan-elizabeth-phillips #humor

A profound impression was created by the discourses of Professor GN Chakravarti and Mrs Besant, who is said to have risen to unusual heights of eloquence, so exhilarating were the influences of the gathering. Besides those who represented our society and religions, especially Vivekananda, VR Gandhi, Dharmapala, captivated the public, who had only heard of Indian people through the malicious reports of interested missionaries, and were now astounded to see before them and hear men who represented the ideal of spirituality and human perfectibility as taught in their respective sacred writings. ↗

— Henry Olcott

#captivated #chicago #dharmapala #henry-olcott #history

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her. ↗

— Jack Adams

#buoy #chicago #couple #her #hundred

My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#actually #after #before #brushed #chicago

In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#dancers #going #i #knowing #need

Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#chicago #claim #demonstration #everyone #felt

Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of Acting, too' and he said, 'Oh really?' And I said, 'I went to Shakespeare Elementary School in Chicago.' He didn't take the joke well, he didn't laugh and didn't think it was funny - I thought it was funny. It's all the same to me. ↗

— Michael Clarke Duncan

#actor #chicago #elementary #elementary school #funny

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#aspiration #been #chicago #city #even

In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#city #communities #days #did #everyone

The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#always #belongs #business #chicago #coalition