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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I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.
Randy Houser -
'Honky Tonk Badonkadonk' wasn't some serious song, but it was huge! It was funny.
Tyler Farr -
In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluorescent protein that was isolated from the bioluminescent chemistry of a jellyfish, and it's been equated to the invention of the microscope in terms of the impact that it has had on cell biology and genetic engineering.
Edith Widder -
The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide -
You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!
Zaha Hadid -
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