Kupcinet Quotes & Sayings

It is up to us, whether to be happy for what we have, or to be unhappy for what we don't have. — Shon Mehta

I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government. — Irv Kupcinet

We are going so slow," Noah said, craning his neck to observe the inevitable queue behind them. "I think I just saw a tricycle pass us. — Maggie Stiefvater

A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs. — Irv Kupcinet

My father, a bakery-truck driver, was the epitome of the work ethic that probably kept me knocking out columns six days a week for a rough total of 12,600 over 50 years. — Irv Kupcinet

As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule. — Irv Kupcinet

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? — Irv Kupcinet

Even when we turn around, there are no footprints behind us ...
Nor the road we came along, nor the tune we hummed ...
When we die,
No-one will know it's happened — Kazuya Minekura

Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career. — Irv Kupcinet

My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me. — Irv Kupcinet

By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job. — Irv Kupcinet

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. — Irv Kupcinet

I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I've come to love this American giant, viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like my City of Big Shoulders. — Irv Kupcinet

Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray. — Irv Kupcinet

'At Random' ran on Saturday nights for as long as the conversation was still lively. Sometimes, I'd finish way after midnight, then hop a plane for whatever city I was working a football game that Sunday. — Irv Kupcinet

What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price. — James Chanos

A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact. — Gore Vidal

I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13. — Irv Kupcinet