Boston Globe Quotes

#1. One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.

Will McDonough

#2. I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

Anthony Doerr

#3. The Boston Globe is reporting that Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry used to date actress Morgan Fairchild but it didn't work out. Apparently she couldn't handle dating someone with bigger hair then she had.

Jay Leno

#4. I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.

Edward Albee

#5. I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.

Carly Fiorina

#6. The trouble with books is that you don't know what's in them 'till is too late

Jeanette Winterson

#7. When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.

Will McDonough

#8. I hope to land roles where my presence is carried on throughout the film. I'm looking forward to taking on a role with a complicated backstory and yet someone who refuses to lose sight of hope. I know that it will happen someday.

Nadine Velazquez

#9. I think before I act
and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

John Christopher

#10. Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.

Barbara Kingsolver

#11. Irony tyrannizes us. All US irony is based on an implicit 'I don't really mean what I'm saying.

David Foster Wallace

#12. I grew up in a family full of yellers. People screaming and chaos goin' on, I feel right at home in it. I've really worked on myself with anger management. I try to save that for the stage.

Art Alexakis

#13. What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.

Matthew Macfadyen

#14. A 'Globe' examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket.

Bill Dedman

#15. Life's too short to not forgive those who hurt us. I trust you to do what's right. Right by your own heart. ... Forgiveness sets you free.

Cheryl Kaye Tardif

#16. Somebody who is Christ's must love Christ, and when he loves Christ he is delivered from the Devil, from hell and from death.

Elder Porphyrios

#17. As the Buddha said, People with opinions just go around bothering one another.

Jack Kornfield

#18. I want to look good, obviously. I don't want to look at the screen and go, Oh, my skin looks terrible, or, I look exhausted. That's why I take care of myself when I work ...

Scarlett Johansson

#19. unhappy Catholics should just become Protestants.

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