Boston Public Quotes & Sayings

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public. — Amar Bose

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone. — Jack Valenti

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

I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station. — Elinor Lipman

This wasn't just an attack against the Boston Marathon ... It was an attack against the American public and our democratic use of the streets. We have used our public roadways for annual parades, protest marches, presidential inaugurations, marathons, and all manner of other events. The roads belong to us, and their use represents an important part of our free and democratic tradition. — Amby Burfoot

The point is not that books, magazines, and DVDs are dead - far from it. At places such as the redesigned Boston Public Library, popular publications and media materials in physical form circulate rapidly from prominent spaces close to the building's entrance. The point is that people's information habits have undergone a sea change - a major shift toward the digital. Libraries are trying to serve a wide range of patrons at many different points along an "adoption curve," with all-print at one end and all-digital at the other. — John Palfrey

Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston. — Eliza Dushku

Akil's sexy-as-sin picture could be plastered all over the tabloids. He wouldn't like that. His halo would slip in the eyes of the Boston public. Never mind that his tarnished halo hung on devil horns. — Pippa DaCosta

The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed people to take books home to read them. — Rachel Cohen

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program. — Donnie Wahlberg

The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited ... There is no rightto strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time. — Calvin Coolidge

I remember before I did 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for drama. Once I'd done 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for a comedy. — Jessalyn Gilsig