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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• Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Acting

• Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Know
  • Thought
  • Guilty

• 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

• The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

  

  Aberjhani
  • History
  • Future
  • Past

• The attitude among the people I knew was, 'Fleur wants to be a singer' but it was never, 'Go for it. You can do it.' Everyone was cynical because we'd never seen anyone where we came from do it.

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Cynical

• 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

• It's only a matter of time before the English clubs become a lot more competitive in Europe, if not dominant, because our league is, by far, the richest league in the world.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • World
  • English

• 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

• I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.

  

  Mainbocher
  • Woman
  • Reflection
  • Self

• 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

• This was a very progressive group of clergy who foresaw the race riots that were going to take place when Dr. King started helping the local civil rights community push for open housing. They were sort of hoping against hope that we could educate kids in a way that could counter some of the racist messages they were imbibing at home. I don't know whether we did any good, but it changed my life in every single way.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Community

• I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Morning
  • Try
  • Twitter

• Sometimes a pinch of sadism is the ingredient that makes victory taste that little bit sweeter.

  

  Andrea Pirlo
  • Victory
  • Sweeter
  • Sadism

• The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

  

  David Cronenberg
  • Fear
  • Study
  • Communication

• 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