Billy Collins Quotes
Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.Billy Collins
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
Rachel Bloom -
Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
Hansika Motwani -
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
Zaha Hadid -
Papa died when he was 77.
Manolo Blahnik -
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
Adam Grant
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
Wendy Kopp -
Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
Barbara Steele -
The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
Garrison Keillor -
In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
Tariq Ali -
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
Patrick Henry -
It's a sin to be tired.
Kate Moss
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
Naomi Watts -
Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
Brown Campbell -
I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.
Fat Joe -
I love the sea.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.
Lady Gaga -
I have close friendships, deep bonds with men.
Kyle Secor
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How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?
Jose Padilha -
You're collaborating with people you don't even know, when you're making a film. You're collaborating with people you've never seen. So, the collaborative process is very, very different than when you're collaborating on a record with the musicians you've worked with all your life.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
I do sculpting sometimes when I have the time, and the first thing I sculpted was a bust of [Albert] Einstein. It still sits on my table and still inspires me. He was a person who triggered my imagination and my ideas.
Vandana Shiva -
Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.
Billy Collins