Billy Collins Quotes

I find it impossible to think of 'favorite' poets. I would rather list the ones I cannot stand.

Billy Collins

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• I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Forever

• I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Work
  • Live
  • Dream

• Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Myself

• We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Country
  • Power
  • Economic

• The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Economic
  • Starting

• I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Know
  • Like
  • Inflated

• I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Love
  • Really
  • Forests

• Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Family
  • She
  • Bad

• I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • More
  • Cast
  • Goofy

• I can live without bread, but I can't live without freedom.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Live
  • Freedom
  • Bread

• In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Goals

• Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

  

  T. Berry Brazelton
  • Parents
  • Care
  • Mistakes

• 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
  • Black
  • Learn
  • Perspective

• 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
  • Pretty
  • Enjoy
  • Nation

• Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Death
  • Before
  • Hardest

• 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
  • Work
  • Day
  • Joy

• When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never occurred to me that I might make my living that way.

  

  Elizabeth Berg

• It's so funny: whenever there's a new technology introduced, there's always this fear it's going to end entertainment as we know it. When records came around, they were going to be the end of live music. Nobody would ever want to go see live music again.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Music
  • Live
  • Fear

• The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Time

• 'The solution lies in secrecy,' said Medra. 'But so does the problem.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Lies

• Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined - personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell: the great American pastime. ... You probably won't see it on a bumper sticker, but sex kills.

  

  Edna Buchanan
  • Sex
  • Killed
  • Jail

• I find it impossible to think of 'favorite' poets. I would rather list the ones I cannot stand.

  

  Billy Collins