Seattle Quotes - Page 2

• All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

  Dave Grohl

  Afterlife, Suitcases

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• Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.

  Sarah Vowell

  Aztec, Office, Waiting

  "The Partly Cloudy Patriot". Book by Sarah Vowell, 2001.

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• Unfortunately Seattle is my muse, for the better or worse of Seattle - I'm not sure.

  Maria Semple

  Muse, Not Sure

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Its like a hypnotist put everyone from Seattle into a collective trance. You are getting sleepy, when you wake up you will want to live only in a Craftsman house, the year won't matter to you, all that will matter is that the walls will be thick, the windows tiny, the rooms dark, the ceilings low, and it will be poorly situated on the lot.

  Maria Semple

  Wall, Dark, Years

  "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?". Book by Maria Semple, 2012.

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• I miss Seattle a lot. It was my first city that I lived in on my own. It was a great city to play for. It was unfortunate for the fans what happened, but it’s time to move on. I’m sure they’ve moved on. But in the back of my mind, I still have a thing for Seattle and always am going to remember what they’ve done for me.

  Kevin Durant

  Moving, Play, Cities

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• Those East Coast rich kids are a different breed, on a fast track to nowhere. Your friends in Seattle are downright Canadian in their niceness. None of you has a cell phone. The girls wear hoodies and big cotton underpants and walk around with tangled hair and smiling, adorned backpacks. Do you know how absolutely exotic it is that you haven’t been corrupted by fashion and pop culture? A month ago I mentioned Ben Stiller, and do you remember how you responded? ‘Who’s that?’ I loved you all over again.

  Maria Semple

  Girl, Fashion, Kids

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• Hovering over me was the Chihuly chandelier. Chihulys are the pigeons of Seattle. They're everywhere and even if they don't get in your way, you can't help but build up a kind of antipathy toward them.

  Maria Semple

  Hovering, Way, Pigeons

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• ...Seattle has unleashed this weird phenomenon on the world called the coffee shop. And the coffee shop, thanks to Starbucks, is the place where socially isolated, lonely, needy people gather together to ignore one another.

  Mark Driscoll

  Lonely, Coffee, People

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• Seattle is beautiful. You look at the sky and it's one of the most beautiful skies in the world, and then there's the Puget Sound, which will kill you, if you fall into it, but it's also beautiful. Seattle is a city of contradictions. It's the most liberal and most literate city in America, and it has Starbucks and [Bill] Gates, but it's also where the Green River killer hunted women and where the runaway population is just shocking when you walk the streets. Within the same city, there's darkness and light.

  Veena Sud

  Beautiful, Fall, America

  Source: collider.com

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• I love Seattle. I couldn't be anywhere else.

  Lauren Jackson

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• And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.

  Krist Novoselic

  Crazy, Cities, Dots

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• On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden entrance into collar and shopping bag. The quiet rain that can rust a tin roof without the tin roof making a sound in protest. The shamanic rain that feeds the imagination. The rain that seems actually a secret language, whispering, like the ecstasy of primitives, of the essence of things.

  Tom Robbins

  Rain, Fall, Essence

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• In Seattle we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life. Our winters are not cold and our summers are not hot and we congratulate ourselves for choosing such a spectacular place to rest our heads.

  Garth Stein

  Summer, Winter, Tree

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.

  Tom Robbins

  Virginia, Ideas, Might

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• Seattle is this curious liberal island.

  Jonathan Raban

  Islands, Curious

  "In Seattle with Jonathan Raban" by Mike Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2008.

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• When I grew up in Seattle, by the way, in the 70's, it was a fishing village. There were loggers and fishers and my dad had a sewer company and it wasn't the way Seattle is now. Culturally, it was very different back then.

  Rainn Wilson

  Dad, Fishing, Different

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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• In Seattle, they have a saying: 'If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes and then shoot yourself in the face.'

  Doug Benson

  Funny, Weather, Waiting

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• I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

  Gordon Parks

  Cameras, Dollars, Fifty

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• To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

  Tom Robbins

  People, Life And Change, Make Things Happen

  "Here in Geoduck Junction" by Tom Robbins, archive.seattleweekly.com. October 9, 2006.

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• I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

  Kenny G

  Fusion, Joining, Gigs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We know that Seattle is mentioned frequently ... a computer was found in Afghanistan showing pictures of Seattle-area landmarks. So we are in constant contact with the FBI and with other federal authorities.

  Greg Nickels

  Computer, Authority, Found

  "Americans urged to enjoy 4th, stay vigilant", www.cnn.com. July 1, 2002.

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• I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it.

  Rainn Wilson

  Growing Up, Drama, Guy

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 17, 2010.

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• My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

  David Guterson

  Father, Law, Criminals

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• My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

  Rainn Wilson

  Mom, Play, Actresses

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 17, 2010.

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• The bluest skies . . . are in Seattle.

  Perry Como

  Sky

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