Billy Collins Quotes

Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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In terms of watching other directors, it's more like I go on set now, and I'm prepared, as an actor, and ready to give them everything, but at the same time, you observe how everybody else does it because there's always something to learn.

Shiri Appleby

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Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

Robert Teeter

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Working, for me, is like a gift.

Millie Bobby Brown

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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

Luc de Clapiers

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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

Don Mattingly

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Ocean planets might be very common in the universe because water is very common in the low-temperature environments where planets form and evolve. This might be especially true for super-Earths, which can retain volatiles more easily thanks to their larger mass and surface gravity.

Dimitar Sasselov

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The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.

David Selby

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Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

David Suzuki

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No Gabonese must be left by the side of the road.

Ali Bongo Ondimba

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One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things.

Timothy Morton

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The Constitution's Preamble, its renowned introductory passage, was written by a man with a peg-leg. Which, if you think about it, gives our Constitution hardly a leg to stand on.

Kevin Bleyer

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