#ere

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#after #asks #because #beforehand #book

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#around #either #else #i #ideas

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bitterest #closet #courage #dare #enemy

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#country #end #few #few things #many

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. ↗

— John Churton Collins

#feel #feeling #half #life #mistakes

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries. ↗

— Judy Collins

#been #centuries #come #criminals #demons

I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive. ↗

— Judy Collins

#always #encouraged #father #great #had

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#different #either #french #french language #great

At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I went to a run-of-the-mill Catholic primary school when we first moved to L.A. But then I went to a high school where there were lots of 'industry' children. Those weren't my best friends and I've never set out to make myself a part of that scene. ↗

— Lily Collins

#brought #catholic #celebrity #children #first

My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in. ↗

— Phil Collins

#collect #else #grace #i #interested