#sure

I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful! ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#awful #buy #did #guitar #guitar player

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#deceiver #double #pleasure

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#function #intellect #life #may #means

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#find #interesting #large #life #like

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#foundation #mind #only #sound #state

I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#am #come #down #english #fluent

Pleasure is none, if not diversified. ↗

— John Donne

#none #pleasure

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. ↗

— Rita Dove

#come #curriculum #early #get #instead

I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it. ↗

— Jerry Doyle

#get #grow #grow up #i #know

I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#had #i #kept #make #real