Billy Collins Quotes

I really have a distaste for poets who announce themselves at 50 yards; you know, here he comes, you know, with the beret and the cane and the cape and the whatever - whatever mishegas is part of the outfit there.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

YouOutfitKnowWhateverHereWho

I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films.

Jessica Chastain

GreatWalkMeGiftDoneDirector

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

Michael Herr

HappyVietnamHadInsteadChildhoods

Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.

Amanda Hocking

GreatWantAnythingIconElse

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring. On the downside, you meet a lot of really bad people in boxing, at all stages of your career.

Sugar Ray Leonard

TimeChallengeYourselfStepPeople

Congress should just do its job and pass a transportation-infrastructure bill - a regular bill that doesn't borrow money and mortgage my future.

Steve Stivers

FutureMoneyJobCongressMortgage

Just getting to the NFC Championship isn't good enough. Winning the Super Bowl is what the expectations are.

Mike Daniels

GoodWinningExpectationsEnough

We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.

Mitt Romney

OpportunityFreedomChallengesBetter

Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.

Derek Sivers

MusicArtEasyAttentionMarketing

Swimming is by far the best tonic I've found for my back. I'm not a good swimmer - I do the breaststroke or elementary backstroke in the slow lane - but when I took a two-week break from swimming I was surprised how much I missed it.

David Shields

GoodBestSwimmingSlowBackMissed

Social networks particularly will tend to converge and consolidate over time, especially because they're inherently governed by network effects. So the bigger ones will just get bigger, their value will multiply exponentially, and the smaller ones will become less and less relevant.

Clara Shih

TimeValueWillBecomeOverBigger

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

William Shakespeare

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A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency.

Peter Fenn

DemocracyTransparencyHealthyOpen

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