Billy Collins Quotes

Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 22, 1941

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The results I've seen with Bodyshred have been far superior to any program that I've ever created.

Jillian Michaels

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Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

Jim Davis

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All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

Jerry Saltz

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You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.

John Mellencamp

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Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

Robert Quine

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I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.

Stephen Breyer

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I have never felt that I am a star. It never came to my mind.

Sridevi

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I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Lash extensions. I hate wearing mascara because it runs all over my face.

Sofia Richie

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Fame made me develop a panic disorder.

Sia

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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Lord Byron

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I wrote and drew my own books on notebook paper, and I'd staple 'em together. I had my own fictional company, and we had our own thinly veiled offshoots of whatever was popular at Marvel and DC at the time.

Jason Aaron

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