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
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
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 -
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
Mae West
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
Olivier Megaton -
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 -
I am the ultimate California girl, which is funny, being that I'm Canadian.
Pamela Anderson -
I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.
Rachael Ray
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Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.
Walter Hill -
I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.
Jim Dine -
I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.
Carly Simon -
Guests who shop at Ulta know exactly what we're about. People who have not shopped at Ulta or have not shopped at Ulta for a long time have a fuzzy image. And that's what I'm all about sharpening and elevating.
Mary Dillon -
I am not a special person. I am a regular person who does special things.
Sarah Vaughan -
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