Billy Collins Quotes

I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GreatPoetryTablePlacesClassroom

I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.

Andy Partridge

FootballBrainDoingTryingDrunk

I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17.

Tommy Lee Jones

IntegrityInterestingJustCharacters

Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what we are.

Mickey Hart

LifeBloodRhythmHeartsMachine

You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.

Monte Irvin

GoodBaseballPeopleBetterWishGo

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

Louise Brown

Never Give UpHeartYourselfBelieve

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

Debbie Allen

WalkDesignCameraLookSayWant

I think filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you will find you can work somehow.

David Slade

WorkPreparationLuckThinkYou

Indeed, we're strongest when the face of America isn't only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

Colin Powell

WaterPeaceFaceGunAmericaRise

It's the combination of marrying a beautiful woman three decades younger and my iPad that keeps me young.

Bruce Forsyth

BeautifulWomanMeBeautiful Woman

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.

Audrey Hepburn

GirlShadesComplexionLimelight

'American Psycho' reminds me of my track in 'Tommy,' my first Broadway show. It's similar conceptually and has that rock n' roll streak.

Alice Ripley

MeAmericanRockFirstPsychoRoll

The housing market will get worse before it gets better.

James Wilson

BetterWillHousingGetMarketGets

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