Billy Collins Quotes

I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue.

Billy Collins

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• If there's a pool I love to hangout there and layout and get some sun. If I can ever find a second to get some sun, some Vitamin D, I will do so.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Love
  • Sun
  • Find

• I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Never
  • Fame
  • After

• And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Challenges
  • Environmental

• History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • History
  • Society

• Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Science

• You're only as old as you feel, and I feel pretty young. I've got one gear, and till it gets reversed, I'm going all out.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Pretty
  • Feel
  • Young

• Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

  

  Walter Lang
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I'm always keen to have more training as a charity patron.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Always
  • Training
  • Charity

• I've done my time. I've done it as well and as respectfully as I think anyone can.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Time
  • Done
  • Think

• The greatest MCs came out of groups; the greatest singers came out of groups. So you can't tell us we're not MCs.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • Greatest
  • Tell

• I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Political
  • Things
  • Turn

• When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Life
  • Stage
  • Hit

• Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Nothing
  • New York

• 'Is all this serious?' Gurgeh said, turning, amused, from the screen to the drone.'Deadly serious,' Flere-Imsaho told him. Gurgeh laughed and shook his head. He thought the common people must be remarkably stupid if they believed all this nonsense.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Serious
  • Stupid

• Why would I want to train at that bum gym? I train with my own people, I have since day one. That man needs to get his facts straight before I roll in there and buy that gym.

  

  Conor McGregor
  • People
  • Why
  • Gym

• Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Age
  • Eyes
  • Wisdom

• Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Art
  • Dream

• There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

  

  Cindy Gallop
  • Time
  • Children
  • Happy

• I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is removed, it doesn't do anything. That means that this work is an illustration of theory, and I don't believe in the power of the work itself.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Art

• For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Shadow

• My first scene was a streaking scene, I had to streak at a footy game, that's how I get introduced.

  

  Ben Nicholas
  • Game

• I love the unknown.

  

  Cindy Gallop
  • Unknown

• I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue.

  

  Billy Collins