Boston Quotes - Page 5

• People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

  Denis Leary

  People, Clubs, Red

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• I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.

  Edith Wharton

  New York, Intelligent, Fashionable

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• I wasn't going to toss off words like love and forever until I was sure. Until he was sure. Forever can be a very long time for a n=Bean sidhes, ans so far his track record looked more like the fifty-yard dash than the Boston marathon.

  Rachel Vincent

  Like Love, Long, Track

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• Who is Hunter Becker?" "Becker the Gory? Lighthouse Keepers? Boston?" "I would've preferred Becker the Easiley Surrendering or Becker the Quite Reasonable, but beyond that his name tells me nothing.

  Ilona Andrews

  Names, Hunters, Lighthouse

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.130, Penguin

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• Do y’all have enough stun guns for them? (Madaug) Does a bear defecate rurally? What kind of question is that for someone who owns the biggest gun store in town? Of course I got plenty. I got enough Tasers to light up New York City AND Boston just for giggles. (Bubba)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  New York, Gun, Light

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.202, St. Martin's Griffin

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• When in Boston, I shall be able to take you out to dinner, if not to bed. I should greatly prefer the latter, but I must accept my lot.

  L.A. Meyer

  Bed, Dinner, Able

  L. A. Meyer (2009). “Rapture of the Deep: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Soldier, Sailor, Mermaid, Spy”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

  Diane Ackerman

  Garden, House, Pet

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.62, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

  Ben Affleck

  Providence, South

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• Technically, I split my time between N.Y.C. and Boston.

  Junot Diaz

  Splits, My Time

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• You have in Vegas the most heterogeneous audience you're gonna get anywhere in the country. In Boston, Chicago, Miami, you know who goes to the theater. In Vegas, you have people who only see one theater show a year, and it's in Vegas.

  Penn Jillette

  Country, Vegas, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Brother, Motivation, Two

  "The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bombings?" by Jeffrey Kluger, healthland.time.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'

  Jonathan Kozol

  Book, School, Cities

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• I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Jobs, Teaching, School

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• No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding.

  W. G. Sebald

  Mother, Light, Sea

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

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• Nothing will ever take away the power and resolve and fearlessness of the great city of Boston. We will get through this. It will take time. But we will get through this.

  Joey McIntyre

  Inspiring, Cities, Resolve

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• The Mayor of Boston says he won't allow Chick-Fil-A in Boston. Amazing that a mayor now has the power to stop commerce because he personally disagrees with the PERSONAL views of the CEO of a company.

  Mike Huckabee

  Views, Chicks, Mayors

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• Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.

  Ben Affleck

  Inspiring, Our Love, Beloved

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2013

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• The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!

  Patrick Henry

  Strong, War, Brave

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• What you've lost sight of is what you are, and what you are is what you hate. You're the 10-time WWE Champion! You're the man! You, like the Red Sox, like Boston, are no longer the underdog! You're a dynasty. You are what you hate. You have become the New York Yankees!

  CM Punk

  Inspiring, New York, Hate

  "WWE Raw" with John Cena, July 11, 2011.

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• The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston.

  Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

  Country, Wine, People

  Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (2001). “Two Years Before the Mast”, p.85, Digital Scanning Inc

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• Hi, Boston Center, TMU [traffic management unit], we have ah a problem here, we have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New - New York and we need you guys to, we need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up there to help us out.

  Joseph Cooper

  New York, Guy, September 11

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• If I were starting now I would do things very differently. I didn't know anything. In Silicon Valley, you get this feeling that you have to be out here. But it's not the only place to be. If I were starting now, I would have stayed in Boston. [Silicon Valley] is a little short-term focused and that bothers me.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Feelings, Valleys, Littles

  "Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston" by Leena Rao, techcrunch.com. October 30, 2011.

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• Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and prose that moves trippingly off the pen. His main man, Eddie Perlmutter, ex-Boston cop attempting semi-retirement in Boca Raton like a fish trying to retire out of the water, is a character for the ages. Carl Hiaasen, watch your back.

  Douglas Preston

  Retirement, Moving, Character

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• This jersey that we're wearing today doesn't say Red Sox. It says Boston.

  David Ortiz

  Red, Today, Jersey

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• When Boston and Orlando told me they were going to pick me at 21 and 22, I figured I don't need to do a workout for a second -round team. Boston and Orlando never drafted me because they said I was too skinny and no European point guard will make it in the League.

  Tony Parker

  Workout, Team, League

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