Billy Collins Quotes
I am increasingly attracted to restricting possibility in the poem by inflicting a form upon yourself. Once you impose some formal pattern on yourself, then the poem is pushing back. I think good poems are often the result of that kind of wrestling with the form.
Billy Collins
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
Nas
I try to get in people's heads. My job is to get the ball, so if I'm talking trash to an O-lineman or quarterback or receiver, and they start thinking about me, that's good, because they aren't thinking about the game anymore.
Malik Jackson
I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
Sally Hawkins
It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
Nathalie Sarraute
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
Ramakrishna
Sometimes, you can get too big when you feel too good.
Freddie Freeman
It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
Maxim Gorky
Onstage, there's a separation between character and audience; onscreen, you can go to a deeper place.
Phyllida Lloyd
It might be in my party's interest for him to sit there, it's not in the national interest and I would say, for heaven's sake man, go.
David Cameron
Honest intention will not cure faulty practice.
John Buchan
I am increasingly attracted to restricting possibility in the poem by inflicting a form upon yourself. Once you impose some formal pattern on yourself, then the poem is pushing back. I think good poems are often the result of that kind of wrestling with the form.
Billy Collins