Billy Collins Quotes
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies, and Loony Tunes cartoons.
Billy Collins
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
Jack Nicklaus
There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
Eavan Boland
I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
Warren Ellis
I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
Pat Sajak
All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
Pat Nixon
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones
No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
Babasaheb
My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
Gabriel Macht
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
Samuel Beckett
In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
Dan Hill
My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
Rachel McAdams
I started out doing musicals.
Zooey Deschanel
When I date different guys, I just have to stay away - and not let myself fall. Because if I do, it's over.
Janet Jackson
The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
Ernst Toller
When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying behaviour is a result of antecedent causes which, if you follow them long enough, will take you beyond the moment of his birth and therefore to events for which he cannot be held responsible by any stretch of imagination.
Bertrand Russell
Well, there's a great Marlon Brando quote that to do something well you have to spiritually marry your director. You have to be making the same movie they are in that you have to try to help their imagination be better, and more full, and more fully realized, but you can't have a different imagination because then you end up - and you see this a lot in movies - where it feels like they were making five different films.
Ethan Hawke
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies, and Loony Tunes cartoons.
Billy Collins
