Billy Collins Quotes

Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand at playwriting, satirical essays, and even a dance scenario for Lincoln Kirsten.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeLoveDanceCareerLove Life

Judges have to be neutral, but they don't have to be eunuchs.

Jed S. Rakoff

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Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Ambrose Bierce

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We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.

Sonia Sotomayor

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I'm prepared to continue doing what we need to do to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

Steve Scalise

DoingStopNeedWeaponContinue

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.

Robin Tunney

MoneyPeopleYouMoviesMoreNeed

I remember very vividly what it's like to be a child. The adults you liked were the ones who listened to you when you spoke and gave you time to say what you wanted to say and actually listened, and quite often reacted as a result of what you'd said.

Rolf Harris

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After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office.

Joshua Ferris

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Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.

Jose Mourinho

GoodHomeYouPlayNeedAtmosphere

My house was a place where there was no difference between being a boy or a girl.

Disha Patani

GirlHousePlaceBoyDifference

'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'

Dorothea Dix

KnowledgeTimeMenWiseKingsKnow

I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college.

Cory Michael Smith

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If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree.

Pierce Brosnan

TreeThinkFallBackNeverOff

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