#hr

The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#audience #down #feels #going #how

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#country #difficult #difficult times #especially #four

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#face #i #like #look #off

There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#beautiful #been #close #darkest #even

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#blank #blank page #days #down #five

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#challenging #extremely #four #i #i can

Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs. ↗

— John Doerr

#better #big #big deal #bugs #chain

We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over. ↗

— Johnny Thunders

#cop #down #five #get #highway

You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#amount #bands #career #did #first

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. ↗

— Bill Veeck

#almost #baseball #best #even #get