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Billy Collins Quotes

The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Thought You Pen Discovery Write Out

Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.

Shirley MacLaine

Women Hollywood Old Real Being Each

I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.

Tom Hardy

Theatre Stage Shakespeare Chekhov

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

Rose Kennedy

Time Pain Mind Said Never Gone

I have this fringe theory that I've sort of stress-tested a little bit - the more polarising and popular a case is, the more likely an acquittal.

Martin Shkreli

More Little Theory Fringe Case Sort

I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

Mitt Romney

Education Good Future Job I Am Help

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.

Don Winslow

Influence Kid Read Shakespeare

I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.

Johnny Vegas

Struggle School Now Two Minutes Ads

In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.

Bob Beamon

School New York Me Team High School

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

Alicia Witt

Change Attitude You Look Acting

I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good.

Shannon Elizabeth

Good Wrong Him Slave Call Something

We only have one life, and it is very precious, and there's a lot we can do, and there's a lot we should do.

Selena Gomez

Life Precious Only Should Very Lot

Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.

Sergey Brin

Search Help Marketing Others Google