Billy Collins Quotes
When I discovered the lyric poem, that advanced not by narrative steps but by blocks and layers of imagery, I said, 'Gee, I probably could do that. So let me try that.'
Billy Collins
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I love making music, though. I love playing.
Pharrell Williams
N.E.R.D.
I'm trying to see what way I could lead so when the opportunity comes, it won't just hit me in the face.
Kawhi Leonard
You learn a lot about people when you're sitting on their bathroom floor or on their toilet seat, rifling through their stuff.
Emily Weiss
The science supporting the relationship between carbohydrates and dementia is quite exciting, as it paves the way for lifestyle changes that can profoundly affect a person's chances of remaining intact, at least from a brain perspective.
David Perlmutter
It's amazing - you know, you just look up, and you say, 'Wow, that's amazing.' It's 25,000 people only on one side, so of course you enjoy it. Every time when you go on the pitch, it's just crazy. They know when we need some energy; they have a button, so it's perfect. But you feel it; you feel it, of course.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
My marriage to David Bailey ended one morning in 1983, while he was away on a photo-shoot.
Marie Helvin
I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.
Nicholson Baker
I like to read the paper online. And I love email. And I love nothing better than to be interrupted.
Andre Aciman
The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.
Bart Chilton
In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.
James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary.
Susan Stewart
When I discovered the lyric poem, that advanced not by narrative steps but by blocks and layers of imagery, I said, 'Gee, I probably could do that. So let me try that.'
Billy Collins