Billy Collins Quotes

I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11.

Joe Bob Briggs

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A lot of young women ask me, 'Can you go into politics and maintain your ideals?' Well, I think you can. You might not, in any one interview, tell the whole truth, but to deliberately deceive the public who've elected you is totally unacceptable.

Joan Kirner

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We're the country of movie stars because the stars, like ourselves, represent a kind of extended infantilism, beauties waiting for the big chance.

Jerome Charyn

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My personal view is that Iran, left to its own devices, will get itself to that step right below a nuclear weapon, that permanent breakout stage, so the needle isn't quite in the red for the international community. And, frankly, that will be as destabilizing as their actually having a weapon.

Michael Hayden

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All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.

Sonia Sotomayor

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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Roger Ascham

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As an actor, you're constantly riddled with self-doubt. You are your own worst critic.

Michelle Fairley

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Electrons are the carriers for electricity, but they are also carriers for thermal energy. This means thermal conductivity is increased when the carrier density is increased.

Mildred Dresselhaus

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The right way to deal with a budget problem that was years in the making is by formulating a credible plan to reduce the deficit over time and as the economy is able to withstand the necessary fiscal belt-tightening. That is what President Obama is doing.

Christina Romer

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If there's nothing interesting about a character, people leave because there's no desire to see what happens.

Brian Azzarello

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People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects.

Pico Iyer

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A yacht is not for me. I don't enjoy it.

Shari Arison

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