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

• I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study of politics, math has come into the picture. We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics; we need to look at this in a rigorous way.

  

  Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
  • Game
  • Study
  • Picture

• There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Die
  • Tradition
  • Elephant

• I think the T-Shirt bra is really special for Victoria's Secret because it's that kind of simple bra that you wear under the t-shirt, so it doesn't have any lace or anything like that. So it's very smooth; it's very comfortable; it doesn't have a lot of padding in it.

  

  Behati Prinsloo
  • Simple

• Understand what you are acquiring and protect it at all costs. You are acquiring people and next-generation products. You are making an investment that together you can grow faster, make more profits, and take more market share.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • People
  • Together

• As a writer, I find it very satisfying when a lyric suddenly ties together more neatly than you expected it to. But for the listener, hearing a good lyric is not generally as exciting as hearing a great beat or a great riff or a great melody or even a distinctive singing voice for the first time.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• 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
  • Lyric