Billy Collins Quotes

If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LeadershipArtResponsibilityPurpose

I began my studies in a sound and electrical engineering program, but I ultimately created a major called 'Ritual Art.'

Jidenna

ArtEngineeringSoundElectrical

My very first scrimmage at Kansas, I got dunked on so hard by Tarik Black that I almost quit. Tarik dunked on me so hard that I was looking at plane tickets home. This guy was a senior. He was a grown man. I didn't know what was going on. He got his own rebound and dunked over me so hard that everything went in slow motion.

Joel Embiid

HomeManMeLookingBlackSlow

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Jean Paul

WorthYouMouthProveActionsYour

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Jean Paul

BeautyGreatFruitPartyFoolsMood

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

Stephen Ambrose

PowerManBrokenWorldPowerful

I always want to do work that feels honest and that's harder to find than you imagine.

Sonoya Mizuno

WorkYouFindWantAlwaysHonest

'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous; I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view.

Russell Crowe

MusicMoneyGiftFamousViewReward

When I dabble in watching the news and reading about current events, I tend to get a future negative view, and that's something I've dealt with through music. It's quite possible I'm slightly paranoid. But I'd say making music is an expression of feelings of helplessness and lack of control that I think a lot of people can relate to.

Matt Bellamy

FutureMusicPeopleControlReading

Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

Milton Friedman

MeSocietyThinkGreedYouRun

I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy.

Josh Hutcherson

RomanticBigGuyCheesyTraditional

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Don DeLillo

PowerPeopleWaySecretMakeWho

Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.

Dick Gephardt

FamilyGoodHeartManCaringHead

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