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 -
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 -
Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
R. D. Laing
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
Vincent Bugliosi -
Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
Earl Campbell -
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. Wells -
Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
Natasha Little -
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
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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 -
I started out doing musicals.
Zooey Deschanel -
The way I look at it you can always get better.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
Samira Wiley -
It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
Natalia Vodianova
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Eat and sleep and exercise. Above all else!
Randy Pausch -
To women, a flip-flopper is the functional equivalent of the guy who never calls and always changes his mind.
Kellyanne Conway -
No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament.
William Tyndale -
I fear, Master Zamp, that you are a victim to your own perfervid imagination.
Jack Vance -
That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
Robert Frost -
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