William Collins Quotes

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

William Collins

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• I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Why
  • California
  • Loved

• There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Like
  • Always
  • Thought

• I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.

  

  Sam Reed
  • Hope
  • Politics
  • Moderation

• I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Great
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• I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Country
  • Family
  • Business

• Explosions are not comfortable.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Comfortable
  • Explosions

• As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Singing
  • Better
  • Miserable

• 'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.

  

  K. Flay
  • Life
  • Dog
  • Compass

• When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Never
  • Theory

• I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Intelligent
  • Living
  • Capable

• With Rajoy, there is a taboo topic, which is the aspiration of Catalonia to decide its future.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Future
  • Decide
  • Aspiration

• I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Business
  • Man
  • Support

• We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Country

• It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• When I was growing up, I was very lucky. My family was the most important thing to me. They provided me with somewhere safe to grow and learn, and I know I was fortunate not to have been confronted by serious adversity at a young age.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Business
  • Way
  • Always

• Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• Growing up in the English countryside, I feel like I'm in a Jane Austen novel when I walk around. I just feel comfortable and confident in those surroundings.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Up
  • Growing
  • English

• When we look at the specific effect of the Internet on language, languages asking the question, 'Has English become a different language as a result of the Internet?' the answer has to be no.

  

  David Crystal
  • Different
  • Question
  • English

• If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Writing
  • She
  • History

• It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

  

  Francis Crick
  • Understand
  • Complicated
  • Around

• Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

  

  William Collins
  • English
  • Humor
  • Poet