Billy Collins Quotes
I find it impossible to think of 'favorite' poets. I would rather list the ones I cannot stand.
Billy Collins
Quotes to Explore
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Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.
T. Berry Brazelton
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Typically, there's this perspective among writers - and black writers: there's this idea that there is one person - and maybe beyond writers - among blacks, there is always one person who everyone should go to learn about all things black.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.
Pat Robertson
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Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
Abu Bakr
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If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.
Ralph Marston
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I love New York! You walk around, nobody notices you, you don't notice anybody, you're in your own little world.
Candis Cayne
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I try to avoid Politico to spare myself psoriasis of the brain but so many journalists cite it that I'm forced to be aware of it no matter how big a moat I build.
James Wolcott
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But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be listened to, kids that need to be taught right from wrong, a checkbook, an oil change, a sunset behind a mountain, laughter at a kitchen table, too much wine, a chipped tooth, and a screaming child.
Donald Miller
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Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a warrior's horse. Musicians and torchbearers came next, with the rear taken up by the mimes- sinister, silent figures in wax masks modelled on dead members of the family.
Catharine Arnold
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There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.
Vannevar Bush
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It was all a matter of a Goddess – dark, hidden, deadly, horribly desirable.
Anthony Burgess
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I find it impossible to think of 'favorite' poets. I would rather list the ones I cannot stand.
Billy Collins
