Billy Collins Quotes
The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.
Billy Collins
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For his the artist's life is, of necessity, full of conflicts, since two forces fight in him: the ordinary man with his justified claim for happiness, contentment, and guarantees for living on the one hand, and the ruthless creative passion on the other, which under certain conditions crushes all personal desires into the dust.
Carl Jung
Music is the space between the notes.
Claude Debussy
It will all come back - the wasted splendor, The heart's lost youth like a breaking flower, The dauntless dare, and the wistful, tender Touch of the April hour.
Edwin Markham
I'm a perfectionist. I like to get it right. I like to get it good. And you know, writing songs is not - it's not the kind of thing that you can count on every day. You never know what's going to come or if it's going to come. So you - you know, it's an uncertain kind of a thing.
Neil Diamond
Saying 'no' is so heartbreaking.
Britney Spears
There are days where I can go into a room full of people, talk to every single person, and feel completely at ease, and feel like making every single person laugh, and feel like everyone's having a great time. There are other times where I go into a room of people, and I literally want to run and hide.
Charli XCX
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.
Bill Clinton
Però ne la giustizia sempiternala vista che riceve il vostro mondo,com' occhio per lo mare, entro s'interna;che, ben che da la proda veggia il fondo,in pelago nol vede; e nondimenoèli, ma cela lui l'esser profondo.
Dante Alighieri
Of all the London theatres, the Donmar is the dream.
Charlie Cox
I don't think there's any danger of my ever becoming complacent about losing. I always hated to lose, regardless of what it was, even when the family was playing Yahtzee.
Darin Erstad
Luneta and her parents started and whirled around, to see Terence standing just inside Luneta's door. "Deuce it, Terence!" Luneta's father expostulated. "You'll kill someone that way someday! How did you get inside without any of us hearing you?" "I came in the door, of course," Terence replied, stepping forward. He held two swords in scabbards, which he tossed onto Luneta's bed as he approaced. "For anyone else, the hinges would have squeaked," Luneta's father muttered.
Gerald Morris
The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.
Billy Collins
