Billy Collins Quotes

I think it's good not to make demands on the reader too early. But as the poem goes on, I want the journey of the poem to lead into some interesting places.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodJourneyThinkInterestingEarly

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

John Gunther

GreenGolfBallLikeGolf Ball

What's easy to forget once you're minorly famous is how nerve-racking it is to walk up to someone famous and interrupt them. When I'm taking a picture with a fan, it's not uncommon for their hands to be shaking or for me to feel their heart pounding through their rib cage. But the best part is how easy it is for me to make someone's day.

Max Joseph

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My father was in the coal and heating business, and he wanted me to take over his business, and I resented every moment of it. So I would never force my kids to do what I do.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

FatherBusinessMomentMeNever

I was shocked and thrilled when I started getting messages and calls from people I look up to in the industry.

Shraddha Kapoor

PeopleLookUpIndustryStarted

I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.

Tom Brokaw

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My mother took me to the British Museum aged five. I had thought people from the past weren't as good as we were, and then I saw the Elgin marbles. Suddenly, the world seemed more complicated.

Mary Beard

GoodMotherPastPeopleMeWorld

I'm this dude that can play a farmhand and a handyman and sometimes a Greek god.

Luke Evans

GodPlaySometimesDudeGreek

I was an accountant in Chicago, and a friend of mine, Ed Gallagher, was in advertising. At 4:30 every day I'd be bored, and I would call him. He'd interview me.

Bob Newhart

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Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.

Anthony Storr

FallBackMy OwnOwnBeliefsAble

I feel that playing the stretch four is an advantage for me because I'm quicker than most power forwards. I can shoot the ball well. I'm efficient, so I can use that to my advantage.

Anthony Bennett

PowerMeFeelI CanShootPlaying

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Thomas Hobbes

TimeExperienceMenEqualThings

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

Lesley Manville

LifeYouKnowKindMoreLived

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