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.'

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• The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Manipulation
  • Blockchain

• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • You
  • Chance

• Hear the other side.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Hear
  • Side
  • Other

• Art was what I originally started out to do and music came second at first. I had a year at art college but I left because it was too much like school. I give all my paintings away to people I like.

  

  Cat Stevens
  • People
  • Music
  • School

• Knowing whether or not one can live without appeal is all that interests me.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Live

• All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • History
  • Single
  • Search

• I love making music, though. I love playing.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Music

• 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
  • Trying
  • Opportunity

• 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
  • People

• 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
  • Science
  • Relationship
  • Brain

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• My marriage to David Bailey ended one morning in 1983, while he was away on a photo-shoot.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Morning
  • Marriage

• 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
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Violence

• 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.
  • Control

• 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
  • Great
  • Why
  • Value

• 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
  • America

• 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
  • Moral
  • Holocaust

• The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • People
  • Life

• We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • Space

• When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

  

  Franz Schubert

• No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.

  

  James Harrington
  • May

• Whatever he does in office, no man can live up to the high expectations of the world, but we have been changed by his election. Obama's inauguration is a historic global achievement, a major milestone in the journey of a powerful nation.

  

  Des Browne
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• 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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