Environs Chicago Quotes & Sayings

It is not uncommon to suppose that the free exchange of property in markets and capitalism are one and the same. They are not. While capitalism operates through the free market, free markets don't require capitalism. — Jeremy Rifkin

I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold. — Neil Young

But, putting on a stillsuit, he put on the desert. — Frank Herbert

They were famous for having bad tempers, but then again, if you sprang into existence to discover that your Creators were human assholes, you'd be pissed off, too. — Matthew Mather

The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the restaurant itself. — David Rockwell

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters - I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world. — Georges Simenon

When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money. It was in August, 1889. She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth. Whatever touch of regret at parting characterised her thoughts, it was certainly not for advantages now being given up. A gush of tears at her mother's farewell kiss, a touch in her throat when the cars clacked by the flour mill where her father worked by the day, a pathetic sigh as the familiar green environs of the village passed in review, and the threads which bound her so lightly to girlhood and home were irretrievably broken. — Theodore Dreiser

Culture does not exist autonomously; it is set always in the context of social relationships. — Robert A. Nisbet

When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief. — Laura Carmichael

So you never got to wherever it was. Weren't you terribly disappointed, Sebastian?
Julia Flyte — Evelyn Waugh

Part of me wants to be married and have everybody around the table for Christmas. But when you're married, your life becomes integrated solely with that person. There are too many characters running around inside me. Maybe they should all be married to somebody different. — Cindy Williams