Boston Quote by Raymond Chandler Download Open image “I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.” — Raymond Chandler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boston Cities God Made Sunday Wet
This is a bad day for Boston, but I think if we pull together we'll get through it. — Thomas Menino Copy Share Image
You know it's a real winter when Bostonians are telling you that they've never experienced anything like it. — Marcus Smart Copy Share Image
“The idea of having several days, never mind weeks or months, to relocate to a climate that was better for your lungs or gout, or to have an extra home in which to practice bridge strategies and indolence, was unimaginable to all but the most wealthy Bostonians, who were inbred and warped. Their idea of vacation was to go north,… — John Hodgman Copy Share
The spring in Boston is like being in love: bad days slip in among the good ones, and the whole world is at a… — Louise Closser Hale Copy Share Image
Patriots' Day is the essence of Boston, a Massachusetts-only holiday that seems like it was invented to celebrate Boston. — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Here's the thing: I had never been to Boston, my whole life. Probably because I'm a Yankee fan. — Dash Mihok Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key] is the record of a man's devotion to a friend. He was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. He wrote scenes that… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“He [James Cain] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just wanted to do wing-overs and sing the prologue to Pagliacci. I had the fly swatter poised in midair and I was all set. There was a patch of bright sunlight on the corner of the desk… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the same. They… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be. — Kenny Wormald Copy Share
I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them.… — Eric Lefkofsky Copy Share Image
I love cooking but I still always go and sneak a little bit of sides from Boston Market, and it's so good. They're so… — Kate Walsh Copy Share Image
I ain't got no problem in Boston, I especially like the attention. I know that I'm one of the top guys in this game and all the attention is on me, I got a lot of people on my shoulder but I'm human. I like to go. I like to have fun. I like to do this and that but… — Manny Ramirez Copy Share
I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played,… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red… — Thomas Menino Copy Share Image
It was when Boston invited us to do a parade one November, and I was the only [Star Wars] cast member skeptical of the… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, maybe… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket. — Nat Faxon Copy Share Image
Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
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