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Billy Collins Quotes

When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet's decision, it becomes the device's decision.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Decision Broken You Order Poet Poem

I wanted to be Amish when I was a kid. You just wear black and white - what could be better? One less thing to worry about.

Anderson Cooper

Black And White Black Better Worry

My voice broke very late. I think that, deep down, I knew that once it broke, my self-esteem would plummet, as I'd never be head chorister again.

Tom Hollander

Voice Deep Think Late Down Never

Columbus was above all an explorer, and his historic achievements opened the Americas to trade and the eventual English settlements, settlements which grew into the most successful bastion of freedom and prosperity in human history, the United States of America.

Tom Tancredo

Freedom History America Prosperity

I reorganize my closet nearly every week.

Rob Kardashian

Week Closet Every Nearly

Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

Michele Bachmann

Business Small Small Business Economy

I was given a chance to try announcing, and it was a job that, in the end, I did not care for very much.

Mick Foley

Job Chance Care End Try In The End

Success was always critical to me. What it meant was winning enough praise and external admiration that I could feel myself to be a logical extension of my Uncle Alex, Uncle Zoli, and my father, in that order.

Michael Korda

Success Father Myself Me Winning

I used to go and hang out at Patricia Field's store when it was on 8th street before it moved downtown. Amanda Lepore would be there, and I would be obsessed with the shoes and the make-up - everything. I just knew it was a creative place that I wanted to be around.

Miriam Shor

Shoes Creative Place Go Street Out

As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs.

Lou Boudreau

Morning Training Baseball Spring You

I learned you're going to have to start from the ground up, and honestly, it starts with hard work, hard work in the offseason, and no shortcuts really.

Jared Goff

Work Hard Work Work Hard Start You

There used to be rather serious firewalls between the artist and the buying public - the gallery, the publisher. And technology demolishes that wall and basically says, 'Self-promote or die.' And that is a bad head for any sort of artist to be forced into.

Jonathan Franzen

Technology Die Artist Bad Wall Head

I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.

Don McCullin

Life Art Pain People Me My Life