Top 15 Beacon Hill Quotes
#1. Let me tell you something, kid," said Mrs. H of Boston and Beacon Hill. "Magic is just a word for what's left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.
Catherynne M Valente
#2. The problem is that one cannot easily build Charleston anymore, because it is against the law. Similarly, Boston's Beacon Hill, Nantucket, Santa Fe, Carmel - all of these well-known places, many of which have become tourist destinations, exist in direct violation of current zoning ordinances.
Andres Duany
#3. For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.
Thomas Menino
#4. Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.
A.E. Croft
#5. He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.
George Orwell
#6. Marriage is hard, labor-intensive. It's not supposed to be easy.
Patricia Elam
#7. You know, it was important for me to do something like that, because nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping.
Pia Zadora
#9. Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.
Gary Bauer
#10. Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
Yulia Tymoshenko
#11. Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.
David Lynch
#12. Tell men that God is love; that right is right, and wrong, wrong; let them cease to admire philanthropy, and begin to love men; cease to pant for heaven, and begin to love God; then the spirit of liberty begins.
Frederick William Robertson
#13. I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
Charles Bukowski
#14. I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.
James Taylor
#15. Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it.
Frederick The Great
