#boston

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#asked #audience #books #boston #furniture

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue. ↗

— Bryan Ferry

#boston #chicago #clue #get #into

My favorite song to play is 'Smokin'' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live. ↗

— Doug Flutie

#band #boston #chance #favorite #had

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#first #i #medal #nine #old

I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that. ↗

— Alexandra Kerry

#dc #grow #grow up #i #life

I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.' ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#boston #city #first #fix #go

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#alive #boston #deal #emerging #freedom

I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#boston #cream #danish #father #i

I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#applied #asked #boston #consulting #encouraged

Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#boston #crew #even #flesh #gained