Billy Collins Quotes
When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.Billy Collins
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
Vanessa Hudgens -
I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.
Kate Moss -
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
Laura Mvula -
It's healthy to have interests besides books.
Patrick deWitt -
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.
Florence Henderson -
The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
Iris Apfel -
It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
Immanuel Kant -
I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
Patrice Leconte
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
Cam -
While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
Barry Silbert -
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
Maeve Binchy -
Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
I. M. Pei -
How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
Carlo Collodi
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A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.
Lewis Hallam -
When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vignettes of the highlights of it - marriage, divorce, death, success, fame, loss. The up and the down and the up again.
David Cassidy -
And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.
Katherine Dunn -
Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet.
Matthew Lillard -
In Las Vegas, the magnitude is impressive, but the humanity is gone. It feels like you're being intimidated out of your money instead of inviting you to come have this experience.
Eric Whitacre -
When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.
Billy Collins