Billy Collins Quotes

I did try to write stories in college because I was interested in writing, and I was interested in the sound of language, but I was just no good at narrative and at fiction.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.

Jennifer Garner

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All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

Meghan O'Rourke

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Cryptocurrencies are just one example of decentralized technologies.

Melanie Swan

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We are looking for development partners, people to work alongside us, which will accelerate our actually getting licences, the technology into product, into the markets.

John McKinley

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I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top.

Matt Groening

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If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to.

Anita Brookner

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I use the default iOS calendar app. I've tried others, but it's my favorite, and I can't live without it. If it's not on my calendar, I'm not aware of it, whatever it is.

Steve Huffman

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It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.

Alva Myrdal

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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

Robertson Davies

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WWE and I have a long history, and I remember some very fun days back in the day.

Roddy Piper

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The wealth disparity between the lowest and the highest continues to expand, and that's inappropriate.

Ruth Porat

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Science, innovation, safety and affordability. Who could oppose United States food policy based on these core principles? Unfortunately, this idea has become unnecessarily controversial in agriculture.

Mike Pompeo

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