Billy Collins Quotes

I am a nonparticipant of social media. I'm not much attracted to anything that involves the willing forfeiture of privacy and the foregrounding of insignificance.

Billy Collins

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• The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Today
  • House
  • Night

• In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Future
  • Like
  • See

• I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • People
  • Life
  • Wish

• The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Up
  • Path
  • Wind

• Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Career
  • Proud

• Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Thinking
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• They're just my weaknesses. Everyone is just constantly talking to me about it. It doesn't help.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Help
  • Me
  • Talking

• It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that instantaneous storytelling you get in theater.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Work
  • Great
  • Film

• I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Bad
  • Night
  • Black

• I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with my instruments. Whenever I had 20 minutes, I would practice a new chord or write a new verse.

  

  Valerie June
  • Money
  • Practice
  • Dog

• Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Great
  • Live
  • Why

• It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

  

  Eddie Mathews
  • You
  • Rhythm
  • Slump

• It's unbelievable how many things I've learned from Merlin Olsen.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Things
  • Learned
  • Many

• Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Different
  • History

• No person under eighteen years of age should be allowed to take any vow or long-term commitment in association with Opus Dei.

  

  Basil Hume
  • Long
  • Age
  • Commitment

• I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch.

  

  Lauren Conrad

• I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

  

  Gene Kelly
  • Job
  • Dance
  • Summer

• What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual curiosity. You start by asking where little babies come from, one thing leads to another, and you find yourself preparing nitroglycerine or solving differential equations. This explanation is somewhat irritating, and therefore probably basically correct.

  

  David Ruelle
  • Science
  • Finding
  • Explanation

• You are intellect, I am life!

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life

• I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Believe
  • Father
  • Loss

• I am a nonparticipant of social media. I'm not much attracted to anything that involves the willing forfeiture of privacy and the foregrounding of insignificance.

  

  Billy Collins