Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

George Bennett

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

Robbie Church

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.

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!

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.

Carolyn Wells

A profit is not without honor save in Boston.

Jeff Gundy

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.

Mitch Miller

We're focusing on responding to small fires once they've been reported to make sure these small fires don't turn into large fires and further tax our resources.

Steve Tracy

We have responded to several fires at this location in the past. This one was a large fire. The structure is going to be deemed unsafe.

Ken Bacon

He fires quite a lot of AAA (anti-aircraft artillery) and missiles at us

Michael Gregory

Our last two fires had smoke detectors, but no batteries, ... We're praying to get the word out (about smoke alarms).

Marc Racicot

Matters have just gotten more grave and more serious, ... Potentially, these fires could last into the fall, until we receive snow. We're planning for the worst of circumstances.

Steve Ogden

One of the issues that the Legislature needs to look at now that we've had serious outbreaks of fires is whether or not in hindsight we should have funded that.

Richard Wood

If we have any intelligence on people who may be lighting fires we pass that on to police. We leave the day-to-day monitoring to the police.

Ed Sennett

I have great kids, one through 15. We knew we weren't going to have to put out any fires all year. They're great people and they're a lot of to be around.

Lynn Ford

The outlook is good because Texas fires start quickly and end quickly. Texas is flatter, with not much rugged terrain.

Michael Redhill

Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die.

William Buckley

Relate it to what should happen; fuse it into the long morality play that began, really, in the Garden of Eden.

Mike Holmgren

I have had it with that stuff. I have a very short fuse with that stuff.

Thomas Harrison

Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.

Darren Criss

When I play live in restaurants and cafes, I don't play my own stuff. I play jazz and 'American Songbook' standards, and I'll fuse it with top 40.

Stephane Dujarric

That's a big fuse. When the fuse blew, it welded some wiring together.

Kenneth Edmonds

I'm much like Thicke - I love all types of music, and when things are fused together it may be watered down, but then you end up with something new.

Michele Patenaude

We're in a much better position than we were. This helps us to maintain the professionalism of our jobs and serve our students better.

Andrea Bocelli

It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.

Lisa Vidal

I'm involved with Children's Hospital Los Angeles. I love anything that helps and improves the life of children.

Richard Boucher

We find it very interesting and useful to talk to somebody with firsthand experience. Obviously, it helps our thinking.

Thomas Mars

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

Tom Rath

Positive defaults protect you from yourself - and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests.

Sathya Baba

Love helps you to know yourself... turn your vision inward.

Matt Hasselbeck

So instead of compressing it and having a lot of pressure, it allows it to ... I don't know why, actually. I have no idea why it works. I just know it helps my arm.

Becky Novacek

She's always been really emotional. She helps me be a better player, and I help her be a better player.

Lorraine Toussaint

I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her.

Lorraine Toussaint

'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.

George Thorogood

The only reason I did it is because I needed a signature piece.

Earl Butz

I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.

Karl Dorrell

Whenever we needed a play made, he stepped up and made a play.

Jim Gaylor

Whether that sparked our hitting, I don't know, but we needed a spark.

Chip Cook

We've been able to make adjustments needed to recover from breakdowns. This year we are much more deep.

Corey Nakatani

When I needed him in the spot that I needed him, he was there.

Corey Nakatani

When I needed him in spots, he was there for me.

Satya Pradhuman

The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,

Michael Vickers

The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it.

Craig Martin

The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.

Father Thomas

The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.

Livan Hernandez

The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs.

Jan Egeland

The point here is it could have been avoided. It didn't have to reach these proportions.

Jim Clarke

We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.

Tom Renney

We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.

Michael Ondaatje

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Michael Behe

When you start putting constraints on science, science suffers.

Patterson Hood

We were supposed to be taking it slowly this fall, with putting together the album,

Brian Donahue

We're putting together a top-notch team of professionals.

Steve Davis

We're putting things in place this season to get us there.

Brian Dixon

We've stopped putting water on them and there is no smoking.

Kourtney Kardashian

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

Joe Humasti

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

Daron Rahlves

I was just trying to concentrate on the simple things: Putting down some smooth skiing, which I didn't do yesterday, and having fun.

Dr. Wielgosz

It is as simple as putting a measuring tape around the waist. That will give an indication.