Famous Quotes & Sayings

If Boston Scientific is to come back, they will have to come back north of US$75 to keep this alive. They'll have to come back at least US$2 or more higher than they were.

If Boston and Oakland start competing to draft players no one else wants, each will get half. As long as the A's keep churning out talent from the draft and the farm system, they'll be fine.

I can tell you our focus is on Boston College and only on Boston College . We haven't decided who will be in net. We'll have our hands full with Boston College as it is.

Eric Olsen

Growing up I pulled for Notre Dame and also Miami and Boston College. When it came down to it those were all in my top five. But Boston College was probably second.

From a competitive standpoint, probably the most sensitive issues are in the Boston and Massachusetts areas, ... There's going to be some risk to Fleet's dominance there, but I'm not really concerned.

Djuna Barnes

When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston; one goes to the Bowery.

We have to get a team that represents what our standards are. On the road trip and the Boston game prior to that, we represented ourselves well. In the last two games we have given very, very little to the game, to each other and to the organization.

Charlie Kaufman

I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.

We are proud of our contribution to the Massachusetts economy. It is an honor to be recognized by the Boston Business Journal.

We are a very good team and this loss doesn't mean we are not a good team. It will be interesting to see how we respond in training and how we play at Boston College next week. We will learn from this game, and it is still only September as there is a lot of soccer left.

John Williams

When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park.

Joe Biden

We didn't crumble after 9/11. We didn't falter after the Boston Marathon. But we're America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

What they're doing is moving forward with the J&J process, which is at this point more official than the Boston Scientific process. Boston Scientific has not yet made an official offer for the company. They've merely proposed an offer.

We're starting up to six flights daily from Dulles to Boston on January 17.

Ozzie Guillen

We're not going to use them. Making the trip for no reason, Boston is real uncomfortable, the clubhouse is small.

Carolyn Wells

A profit is not without honor save in Boston.

Tracy McGrady

We felt like before the season started, leaving out all the injuries, we felt like we were going to be a pretty good team. We started out slow due to injuries. It kind of set us back a little bit. But winning that home game (against the Boston Celtics), then going on a six-game road trip, that was either going to make us or break us. It was really going to determine our season. We were hungry, and we were really confident and went 5-1.

We're fortunate that Boston Culinary is willing to work with us. I guess we are a city in poverty. I guess we don't like to see ourselves like that.

Victorian racehorse owners frequently named their horses after murderers. That was so astonishing. Can you imagine the equivalent today, with a horse named, say, Boston Strangler, running in the Kentucky Derby? This was a new discovery. The Victorians didn't think it was odd, so no one ever mentioned it particularly.

Mike Wallace

My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

Calvin Coolidge

The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited.... There is no rightto strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

Bernie Worrell

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

Michael Musto

We've been in business in Woburn since 1989 (at previous locations on New Boston Street and then Holton Street), and we've made an investment in this building,

When you get to the NCAA tournament, every team you play is going to be a tough opponent. We have a lot of respect for Boston College.

Mark Ellis

The fact is, we're only one game behind. And at this point of the year, that's all right. ... It's a big series, four games in Boston -- that's a tough place to play. We have got to win a couple there and keep it close.

Tom Scholz

All Boston songs are fairly difficult to translate to the stage. None of them are especially easy to play or sing. A lot of them, of course, have very involved arrangements with lots of different sounds and sections that are difficult to play and sing. The prospect of doing any Boston song live is always an endeavor in itself.

Ben Affleck

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.

Barbara Walters

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

Denis Leary

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!

Craig Kilborn

In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache. ... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events that Harvard brings to the life here, Boston would be intolerable to anyone except genealogists, antique dealers, and those who find repletion in a closed local society.

Waite Hoyt

There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.

We work very closely with Boston police to ensure the safe conduct of all of our spectators.