Billy Collins Quotes

When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ManPoetryMeYouYoungYoung Man

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

Stephen Dorff

WorkHumblePeopleFeelAccomplish

Spider-Man has always been a huge part of my life. I love the movies. I love the comics. And I always just wanted to be Spider-Man.

Tom Holland

LifeLoveMy LifeMoviesAlways

I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.

Ruud Gullit

I AmControlGameSpeedI CanFit

I'm 240, and I'm not fat.

Mirko Cro Cop

Fat

If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.

Jason Aldean

WorkLoveBusinessSongYouKnow

I find campfire stories and urban legends are kind of the bread and butter that inspires a lot of people who are making horror and thriller. There is a nugget of truth behind these sort of cautionary tales.

Jordan Peele

TruthPeopleFindKindLegends

I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure.

Peter Morgan

LightShineMeasurePersonWant

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Paulo Coelho

DayBlindAttentionYouSeeingOwn

I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker.

Shane Smith

ThinkMediaNowMoreEveryoneFact

I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up.

Sean Combs

GoodGrowing UpThinkGrowingSay

If you don't live a normal life, how do you relate to people?

Scott Speedman

LifeLivePeopleYouNormalRelate

I think obstacle courses in general are a blast, and I love the Green Beret one; I've done it - I don't know - 20, 30, 40 times. I'm always trying to break my time from the last one or use a new technique to get through a certain obstacle.

Tim Kennedy

LoveTimeGreenThinkTryingKnow

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