Billy Collins Quotes

I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word 'accessible.'

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• My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Best
  • Hair
  • Color

• I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • War
  • Peace
  • Admit

• There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Moments
  • Lot

• When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Heart
  • Fly
  • New York

• A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Lost
  • Will
  • Battle

• We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Important
  • Lost
  • Positive

• Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Nothing
  • Without
  • Promotion

• I love a man bun.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Man
  • I Love

• I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Way
  • Son
  • Round

• You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Free
  • You
  • Like

• I make films about working class people.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • Working
  • Class

• Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • God

• I do not, therefore, need any penetrating acuteness to see what I have to do in order that my volition be morally good. Inexperienced in the course of the world, incapable of being prepared for whatever might come to pass in it, I ask myself only: can you also will that your maxim become a universal law?

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • World
  • Good
  • Law

• Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? and is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Trust
  • Confidence
  • Wise

• There is a great Man living in this country - a composer. He has solved the problem how to preserve one's self and to learn. He responds to negligence by contempt. He is not forced to accept praise or blame. His name is Ives.

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Great
  • Country

• Well, I could have been a famous singerIf I had someone else's voiceBut failure's always sounded betterLet's fuck it up, boys, make some noise!

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Up
  • Failure
  • Famous

• I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.

  

  Billy Koch
  • Trying
  • Service
  • Gold

• In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.

  

  Leland Stanford
  • Society
  • Organization
  • Mercy

• I hadn't done comedy before 'Fresh Meat' - I hadn't really been seen that way, and then 'Fresh Meat' came out, and suddenly a lot more comedy scripts were coming my way, which was really great.

  

  Kimberley Nixon
  • Great
  • Done
  • Comedy

• Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers, the fireless days and the meatless days, the cold winters and the sharp tongues? It's not as if we had a choice.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Choices

• For me, it's about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That's what's big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Great

• Soap Actors are fun and interesting. They all have something special that you want to be around.

  

  Austin Peck
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word 'accessible.'

  

  Billy Collins