Billy Collins Quotes
I'm going through life's cycles at an alarmingly fast pace, but my persona has a Peter Pan quality: he doesn't age.Billy Collins
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In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
Zach Galifianakis -
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
Vidal Sassoon -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
Lara Giddings
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
A. R. Rahman -
I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
Damien Chazelle -
We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
Naguib Mahfouz -
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
Daniel Boulud -
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
Orison Swett Marden
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
Patrick Kavanagh -
I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
Kari Matchett -
The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
Babyface -
Western man is schizophrenic.
J. B. Priestley -
Health care should be affordable for everyone.
Ed Pastor -
Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
Yoshihiko Noda
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Those four Super Bowl losses? Yeah, it sucks that we didn't win, but what are you going to do about it? You can feel sorry for yourself, but that's not how I was brought up.
Jim Kelly -
It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.
Adolf Anderssen -
I got to make 'Trishakti' with Arshad Warsi, who was a newcomer at that time. The movie took three years to complete and became dated by the time it was released. The movie did not even get a proper release and bombed at the box office. It was a very bad patch of my life and a big disaster for my career.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
One of the strangest results of having your name on a book jacket is the proliferation of people who know one narrow aspect of your life and are suddenly surprised to learn there's more.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes -
I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be.
Anna Kavan -
I'm going through life's cycles at an alarmingly fast pace, but my persona has a Peter Pan quality: he doesn't age.
Billy Collins