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
One of the biggest challenges of writing for middle-grade or even young-adult readers is that I don't want to have too much violence in it - which really limits what you can do. It's important that they're not just bloodbaths or glorifying violence. I always try to show that a person who dies leaves a hole. There's grief in my books.
Alane Ferguson
I don't have any control over the offers that are going to come to me or not come to me. But I can't go backward, and so that's what's tricky.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
A lot of great medicines and ancient therapies are blocked by the FDA, so that's why I choose to travel and recognize the value of diverse points of view in medicine.
Yolanda Hadid
Whenever I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room.
Amanda Peet
A lot of the Indians who came to North America in the '70s, and who made very successful adjustments, always had an idea of the India that they had left, not realizing that the India that they had left has changed more profoundly than the America they came to.
Clark Blaise
The slogan 'Never Again!' that emerged after the Holocaust implies that the Holocaust has a universal moral meaning, which, if properly learned, can provide at least a theoretical prophylactic against its repetition against anyone.
David Novak
Aristotle was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato…. He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that Plato said, 'Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.'
Plato
Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three hours with no ideas coming to me. But I know one thing. If an idea does come between 9 and 12 I am there ready for it.
Flannery O'Connor
O, how wretchedIs that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,More pangs and fears than wars and women have;And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,Never to hope again.
Prince
I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three.
Kevin Macdonald
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.
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
