Laced Boston Quotes

#1. [Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall]
[He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, ... to 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition.

Josiah P. Mendum

#2. You are not the mistakes of your past, but the resources and capabilities that you have gleaned from your past.

Jordan Belfort

#3. You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

Tamora Pierce

#4. Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

Kay Panabaker

#5. The only way to fight evil is with joy,

Alice Hoffman

#6. I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.

William S. Burroughs

#7. Boston is so laced with jerseys that you can be dressed head to toe in team apparel and no one will look twice.

David Walton

#8. Sir Christopher Wren
Said, "I am going to dine with some men.
If anyone calls
Say I am designing St. Paul's.

E.C. Bentley

#9. Oddity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. What one person rejects as lunacy, another reveres as truth.

Philip Gulley

#10. The love within us is meant to extend outward. The closer we grow to our inner light, we feel a natural urge to share it. We all long for meaningful work, some creative endeavor that will be our ministry, by which the energies within us might flow out to help heal the world.

Marianne Williamson

#11. The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

Walter Scott

#12. My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.

Cat Cora

#13. If we rub a fabric too often, it will quickly grow threadbare; and Nobu's words had rasped against me so much, I could no longer maintain that finely lacquered surface Mameha had always counseled me to hide behind.

Arthur Golden

#14. I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter.

Patricia Highsmith

#15. I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.

Andrew Cohen