William Collins Quotes

By fairy hands their knell is rung; / By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

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• I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Same

• Funny is an attitude.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Funny
  • Attitude

• I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Think
  • Christmas
  • Pie

• When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Children

• As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Science
  • Religious
  • Talent

• All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Amazing
  • Lists
  • Link

• I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Try
  • Take Advantage

• I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Me

• The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.

  

  Halsey
  • Space
  • Difficult
  • Sound

• In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Household
  • Arthur
  • Susan

• I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • World
  • Live
  • Alone

• I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Science
  • Never
  • Fiction

• The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

  

  Imran Khan
  • Time
  • Children
  • War

• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

  

  Jack London
  • Me
  • Planet
  • Glow

• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Afraid

• I try and work out as much as I can. When I'm working or travelling, it's tough, but when I'm at home, that time and space is sacred. I do yoga every day.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Small
  • Land
  • Israel

• Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

  

  William Blake
  • Shadows
  • Contemptible
  • Excrement

• Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Change
  • Something
  • Expected

• It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • People
  • Thought
  • Avoid

• In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people: harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Sun
  • Foreign oil
  • Efficient energy

• The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today, or at any time.

  

  William S. Knudsen
  • Today
  • Learning
  • Worry

• By fairy hands their knell is rung; / By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

  

  William Collins
  • Hands
  • Fairy
  • Forms