Billy Collins Quotes

Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Woody Allen way. To read Freud is not as much fun.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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To the game code, the world is still just a tile map, but for rendering, each map was exported as a general-purpose 3D model, and the artists could then go through it and spend the polygons any way they liked, without the limits of line-of-constant-z software rasterization that we lived with on the mobile phones.

John Carmack

WorldGameLimitsGoWayMap

I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.

John Nelson Darby

GraceOnlySuccessionChannelsHeld

If we want an international trade deal that advances the interests of our own people, then perhaps we don't need a 'fast-track' but a regular track: where the president sends us any proposal he deems worthy, and we review it on its own merits.

Jeff Sessions

PeopleWantPresidentNeedWorthy

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story.

Tom Selleck

GreatMindStoryYouBadKnow

You put me in the room with my family and everyone I grew up with, and I'd be the last person that you'd say is the performer.

Rory O'Malley

FamilyMeYouPersonSayRoom

I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I'll stay in the superhero world as long as I can.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

LoveWritingWorldLongI CanStay

I don't think Luke Cage as a superhero is something that has changed dramatically from the '70s to now. He's a black man going through the same thing as other people of colour - it's just that he has superpowers.

Mike Colter

ManPeopleBlackThinkNowColour

I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

WomenWordsMeChanceThoughtYou

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.

Conan O'Brien

AmazingBookPresidentWriteYes

I'm action-oriented.

Anne Wojcicki

IdeasManifestDiscoveryWillLead

The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.

Anthony Albanese

HistoryBestThinkingPoliticalBig

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.

Allen Boyd

EducationWomenHealthMenPromises

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