#sure

While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#doing #dresses #even #everyone #few

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it? ↗

— Don DeLillo

#end #how #life #meaning #meaning of

I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street. ↗

— Paz Vega

#chinese #contemporary #films #going #i

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#make #midnight #new #new year #old

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#busy #buy #commitment #days #expensive

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#conform #hear #i #i can #i wish

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#ill #praise #understand #worse #you

I hike and make sure everything I eat is organic. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#everything #hike #i #make #organic

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#creatures #god #greatest #his #love

Right now we have a closure rate between discovery and exploitation of four to six months. We need to be more in the realm of seven to 10 days. That is an enormous challenge. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#challenge #closure #days #discovery #enormous