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Billy Collins Quotes

Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time School Poetry Listening Said

When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.

Good Think Someone You Real Out

So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.'

Think Stand You Say Same Awesome

When you have Khiladi Kumar on one side and Thalaiva on the other, you have to know your stuff well.

You Know Side Well Your Stuff

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

City You House Build Personal Opera

They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Wife Stubborn Say They Say Paid Off

You never know what you do that could be totally out of left field, which actually might work and give something fresh to the whole scene, to the character, whatever. If you have that with a director who then knows how to shape it, either in the direction, in the moment, or in the editing, then that's good.

Work Good Character Moment Direction

I always want to win, and it was time to win some club prizes, some titles. I never would have gone for the money, but wanted the chance to get a bit further in my career. And it turned out to be the right decision.

Robin Van Persie

Time Decision Money Win Chance Want

I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers.

Business Hotel Doing Manager High

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Life Wisdom Looking Choose Create

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

Jean Baudrillard

Learning Power Way Need Same Us

I think it's a brilliant tool to have, not only to have a sense of humor, but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life, and I tend not to be that type of person. I wish I were.

Life Humor Think Wish Help Person

The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.

Assumptions Look Choice Fail Annoyed

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