#den

I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#accepted #away #became #bestseller #book

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution. ↗

— Charles Bowen

#constitution #culture #knowledge #more #pop

Everything for me has happened so quickly. I finished shooting 'The Blind Side' not this past June, but the June before, and all of sudden up to now, it seems like it's gone from zero to 60 for me. I feel so fortunate to be able to say that. ↗

— Lily Collins

#before #blind #everything #feel #finished

Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#colleges #common #common interests #companies #connect

When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry. ↗

— William Collins

#dentistry #do-it-yourself #go #her #his

But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary. ↗

— Grandmaster Flash

#art #art form #cowboy #creating #everyone

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#charity #creed #deny #half #happens

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#imprudent #more #nothing #prudence #than

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#deceived #even #from time to time #never #once

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. ↗