Billy Collins Quotes
I don't think I've ever written a poem whose intention was just to be funny. I've written poems that start out funny and often shift into something more serious.Billy Collins
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken -
I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
Mackenzie Rosman -
I have an unfortunate personality.
Orson Welles -
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln -
There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
Sachin Tendulkar
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Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.
Caitlin Hale -
The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.
Zachary Taylor -
I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
Edmund Hillary -
The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities.
Maajid Nawaz -
I think I am a star - I'm simply a funny-shaped star.
Malcolm Wilson -
I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called 'How to Dance Properly,' a short video of me dancing to a Madonna song. I sent it to 17 of my friends on a Thursday, and by Monday, one million people a day were logging on to view it.
Ze Frank
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
Mae West -
People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
Olivier Megaton -
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
P. G. Wodehouse -
I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.
Kaley Cuoco -
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor -
I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.
Rahm Emanuel
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When I started out, I wanted to be a serious actor. I never thought I'd get into comedy.
Charlotte Rae -
I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.
Brian Wilson -
More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.
Charles Bowen -
Then there was the man who declared in court, he wasn't a person. 'Excuse me, sir, why haven't you paid your taxes.' 'Well, as you can clearly see, I am not a person.' 'Well, you look like a person.' 'No it's all done with mirrors, trust me!'
Lewis Black -
Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.
Chantal Kreviazuk -
I don't think I've ever written a poem whose intention was just to be funny. I've written poems that start out funny and often shift into something more serious.
Billy Collins