Billy Collins Quotes

My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.

Billy Collins

Poetry

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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

Ralph G. Neas
I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

Randy Bachman The Guess Who
- Music
- Age
- Gift
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.

P. J. O'Rourke
- Good
- Man
- Wish
I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

Barbara Cook
- Time
- Family
- First
I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.

Zach LaVine
- Me
- Feel
- Hard
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

Irving Fisher
- High
- Like
- Looks