Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Billy Collins Quotes

I'm not a claustrophobe, but you don't need to be to feel claustrophobic inside an MRI. It's like being buried alive.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Feel You Alive Inside Need Being

When I was visiting schools, I wanted to go and see what they got. After my visit, I knew that Kansas was good.

Good Go See Kansas Got Knew

Kotter International is about leading large-scale change, not just managing it.

Change Leading Just International

The people of Montana understand that you will never be able to take enough money from them and give it to the government to quench that thirst. The government will always spend more money.

Money Government People Enough You

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

Business You Fail Because Working

I remember always feeling lucky with Zoey on 'Nurse Jackie' that... she was new at the very beginning. So that gave her everywhere to go.

Beginning Remember Feeling Go New

I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.

Stephen Cole Kleene

Think Church Year Two Europe Got

Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather: all pervasive and virtually inescapable.

Life Culture Experience Quality See

I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

Camera Said Actor Director Always

I try to play the best I can every time I play. But there's just some folks that seem to draw a little bit of that extra special out of you.

Time Best You I Can Play Try

A lot of people get elected to Congress, and sometimes a part of their pledge is a term-limit pledge. There's no accountability.

People Accountability Sometimes Get

Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It's the approval of your peers.

Success Swimming Pool Swimming Pool

I always thought that Mario was kind of the bad guy - because if you knew about the game, there was supposed to be a back story where Mario was teasing the ape, and the ape stole his girlfriend, and this was kind of karma for Mario, you know?

Game Story Thought Karma You Bad

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Billy Collins