Quotes & Sayings About Chicago Weather

Who will you measure Me with, so that we should be like each other? — Anonymous

Was our leaving proof that Iraq might be one of the administration's "great achievements"? Was the Iraq that we left without any peacekeepers really "stable"? On more than ten occasions the president bragged on the campaign trail that he alone had ended American involvement in Iraq. When Iraq predictably blew up after our departure, he snarled to reporters that he was angry that anyone would dare accuse him alone of being responsible for our precipitate departure. — Anonymous

The art schools ... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it. — Leonard Baskin

Here in Southern California we San Diegans have a saying. Hawaiians wouldn't appreciate it, but we say it nonetheless. We go outside, look around, and then say, "Just another day in paradise." The saying fits most every day of the year. In San Diego, near the ocean, it's never bitterly cold and it's never oppressively hot. I can appreciate the realities of the nonsublime weather in certain areas of the country. I spent a few years in Chicago for college, before heading back to San Diego. Then I returned to the Chicago area for two years of graduate school. I have figured that in the five years (sixty months) that I spent in the Midwest, forty months consisted of glacial winter. Another seventeen months were hot, airless summer. Perhaps three months over the entire five years were pleasant. Maybe even a day or two could have been described as idyllic. San Diego is different from that. Every five years we have about sixty months of heavenly weather. — Anonymous

The darkest moments of the night herald the imminent advent of a radiant sun. — Abhijit Naskar

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute. — Ann Coulter

Yes, last year we hit a record number of murders from guns [in Chicago]. And this year we are already outpacing last year's numbers. Now, there are contributing factors that are not under anybody's control and may seem odd, but it is factually true. One of them is actually the weather. There is a dramatic increase in gun violence when it is warmer. And we are having this climate change effect that is driving that. — Christie Hefner

Have you ever seen lips so chapped that when the person smiles too wide they start to bleed? That's me every January in Chicago if I don't apply ChapStick every thirty minutes without fail. If I go forty-five minutes, my lip situation gets compromised and I end up looking like I got into a fight and lost. And it's kinda awkward to explain to people that the fight I got into was with the weather. Good times. But — Luvvie Ajayi

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do - a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true. — Jamie Foxx

As stylists, we're groundshakers and daymakers. I was always in hair. — Vidal Sassoon

Strawberries that in gardens grow
Are plump and juicy fine,
But sweeter far as wise men know
Spring from the woodland vine.
No need for bowl or silver spoon,
Sugar or spice or cream,
Has the wild berry plucked in June
Beside the trickling stream.
One such to melt at the tongue's root,
Confounding taste with scent,
Beats a full peck of garden fruit:
Which points my argument. — Robert Graves

I lived in a place where the weather holds a grudge against humans. Winter in Chicago is winter defined (..) — Royce Prouty

I used to go into bars on my days off, and I decided that wasn't too good for me. — Phil Daniels

Right now I'm wearing an illegal smile. — Waseem Latif

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that. — Jonny Lee Miller

I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. I'm just not a cold weather person. — Emily Robison

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning. — Oswald Chambers

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? — Rene Rivkin

You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes. — Ralph Kiner

The problem with the evangelical homeschool movement was not their desire to educate their children at home, or in private religious schools, but the evangelical impulse to "protect" children from ideas that might lead them to "question" and to keep them cloistered in what amounted to a series of one-family gated communities. — Frank Schaeffer