Billy Collins Quotes

I'm going through life's cycles at an alarmingly fast pace, but my persona has a Peter Pan quality: he doesn't age.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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It's important to keep on keeping on, to feel good about yourself and be happy with who you are.

Sonia Rykiel

GoodYourselfHappyBe HappyYou

Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special.

Tom Heinsohn

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You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

Robert Duvall

YouFeelingPlayEveryoneLittle

I like to try new things.

Rufus Wainwright

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Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.

Mason Cooley

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One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an inventive gift for storytelling. I also loved immersing myself in works of nonfiction that taught me something about the world, that made the past come alive or shed light on hidden corners of history or the news.

Michiko Kakutani

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So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women's fiction is alive and kicking.

Jojo Moyes

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I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager.

Drea De Matteo

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Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

Count Basie

GoodNightYouFindPlayDamn

If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.

Bobby Orr

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Antonin Dvorak

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