#ago

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#apartment #based #building #character #course

Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would you mind telling my son here that you're Uncle Vernon?' I said: 'Get a grip. It's 11:30 at night - what's he doing out of bed? I'm not here to entertain people at this time of night. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

#bed #bloke #came #couple #doing

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics. ↗

— John Grisham

#bashed #critics #fiction #get #going

My first vegetable garden was in a hard-packed dirt driveway in Boulder, Colorado. I was living in a basement apartment there, having jumped at the chance to come out West with a friend in his Volkswagen Bug, fleeing college and inner-city Philadelphia. I was twenty, hungry for experience, and fully intending to be a ski bum in my new life. But it didn’t turn out that way. ↗

— Jane Shellenberger

#gardening #philadelphia #volkswagon-bug #experience

We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago. ↗

— Henry Hampton

#black community #boston #chicago #class #community

When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#certain #cooking #current #difficult #eat

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. ↗

— Ben Hecht

#fantastic #haven #herd #journalistic #last

That's what protagonists do. They work hard, they have a conflict, they overcome the obstacles. ↗

— Jon Heder

#hard #obstacles #overcome #protagonists #work

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#assume #century #dinners #government #had

If there is no fundamental science then there is no basis for applied science. We have to strike a balance. 23 years ago the World Wide Web was born here. It has changed the world dramatically. ↗

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#applied #balance #basis #born #changed