Billy Collins Quotes
I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.Billy Collins
Quotes to Explore
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Age for me is just a number.
Haile Gebrselassie -
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot -
A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
Dan Colen -
I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
Patch Adams -
I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
Faith Prince -
I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
E. G. Marshall
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
Barbara Bush -
A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
Maggie Grace -
Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
Adam Draper -
As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
Sam Riley -
I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
Mandy Moore -
Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
Adam Petty
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
Joanne Rowling -
Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
There is no truly global justice.
Ralph Steadman -
OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
Patricia Velasquez -
I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
Vijender Singh -
I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
Raekwon
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We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.
Zhang Zhidong -
Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.
Leonardo da Vinci -
It's terrible when I go somewhere, and I'm not recognized.
John McLaughlin -
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Pablo Picasso -
I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.
Billy Collins