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Billy Collins Quotes

Now that I'm older, a real source of interest is the ages of the dead, the number; the day is off to an optimistic start when the departed are all older than I.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Day Start Now Dead Real Source

I remember being with my mum eating marmalade on toast watching 'Inspector Gadget,' 'Sharky and George,' 'The Pink Panther,' and 'Thundercats,' stuff like that. Those were the days - no idea how brutal the world is.

Joe Gilgun

World Eating Pink Remember Watching

When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her.

Meg Cabot

Mother Spring Story Goddess See Her

If you want to win in this league, you need quality depth management, in the age of the salary cap.

Robert Kraft

Age Quality Win Management You Want

When I was in high school in the '50s, all pop music - Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard - was aimed at teenagers. I loved that stuff.

Robert Hilburn

Music School High School Loved High

My deal with Marvel is I have a consulting deal with them as well as a contract to make 'Avengers.' That means I'll read all the scripts, I'll look at cuts.

Joss Whedon

Look Contract Well Deal Read Means

A bespoke shirt is one of the true luxuries that you can acquire. There's nothing better than a fitted shirt. Once you've picked up your first one, you'll never stop buying them - providing you can pay for it.

Jason Statham

Better You Stop True Nothing Never

I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented!

Jose Mujica

Good Black And White Words I Am Evil

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.

Joseph Hume

Food Bad Class Over Monopoly Corn

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

Bob Uecker

Service Baseball Never Out Anything

In the Golden Age of Batman, I penciled, inked, and lettered my strip by myself.

Bob Kane

Age Myself Golden Batman Golden Age

I want to live at home. You can only write at home.

Svetlana Alexievich

Home Live You Want Write Only

If you're trying to develop a new drug, that costs you a billion dollars to get through the FDA. If you want to start a software company, you can get started with maybe $100,000.

Peter Thiel

Start Trying You New Want Software