1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About Massachusetts - Brossura

9781599210964: 1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About Massachusetts

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ISBN 10: 1599210967 ISBN 13: 9781599210964

Casa editrice: Lyons Pr, 2007

"Maybe it's how close we are to history here that makes Massachusetts such an interesting place to write about, or the sense that this was the initial American frontier, or the literary legacy of so many great Massachusetts writers."
--Alice Hoffman "I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday." --Raymond Chandler
"I'll tell you what PAYGO means, when you're a senator from Massachusetts, when you're a colleague of Ted Kennedy, pay go means: You pay, and he goes ahead and spends."
--George W. Bush Don’t Blame Me—I’m from Massachusetts
—Post-Watergate bumper sticker

Being a conservative Republican in Massachusetts is a bit like being a cattle rancher at a vegetarian convention.
—Mitt Romney

Puritanism—The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
—H.L. Mencken

All I can claim for Boston is that it is the thinking center of the continent, and therefore of the planet.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

The [Boston] Pops are a good melting pot of music. I guess we’re the classiest jukebox in the world.
—Arthur Fiedler

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, had always been the systematic organization of hatreds, and Massachusetts politics had been as harsh as the climate.
—Henry Adams

The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child’s play? Well, up here in Boston, it’s a passion play.
—George Higgins

It’s spring and the saps are running.
—early Boston Marathon joke

Boston is the perfect city for the Democrats, ’cause the Democrats are like the Red Sox. They’re optimistic in the spring, concerned in the summer, and ready to choke in the fall.
—Jay Leno, on selection of Boston for 2004 Democratic National Convention

Chowderheads, rejoice! This compilation of 1001 wicked good quotes from and about the Bay State dishes up the most thought-provoking insights ever uttered by founding fathers, philosophers, celebrities, statesmen, writers, sports stars, and many others on all manner of things Massachusetts. Red Sox fans, travellers of the Freedom Trail, and anyone who's ever attempted "pahking the ka" in the People's Republic will find hours of delight and inspiration in these pages.

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L'autore:

Patricia Harris and David Lyon have written the Food Lover’s Guide to Massachusetts, Boston Off the Beaten Path, and Romantic Days & Nights in Boston. They live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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“Don’t Blame Me—I’m from Massachusetts.”
—Post-Watergate bumper sticker“Being a conservative Republican in Massachusetts is a bit like being
a cattle rancher at a vegetarian convention.”
—Mitt Romney“It’s spring and the saps are running.”
—early Boston Marathon joke Chowda-heads, rejoice! This compilation of 1001 wicked good quotes from and about the Bay State dishes up the most thought-provoking insights ever uttered by founding fathers, philosophers, celebrities, statesmen, writers, sports stars, and many others on all manner of things Massachusetts. Red Sox fans, travelers of the Freedom Trail, and �anyone who’s ever tried to “pahk the ka” in the People’s Republic will find hours of delight and inspiration in these pages.

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