Billy Collins Quotes

I'm all for poetry catching up with technology, and just as there are iTunes, I think we should have iPoems. I mean, people should be able to walk around with their earbuds in and listening to poems on their iPod.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TechnologyWalkPoetryPeopleThink

I know I'm not an anti-Semitic person.

Jim Caviezel

PersonKnowAnti-Semitic

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

John Donne

NatureGreatElephantMasterpiece

If I follow someone, and I don't like their Twitter feed, I unfollow them and often have a changed opinion of the person.

Meghan McCain

OpinionSomeonePersonFollowFeed

I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.

Stephen Malkmus

LiveCoolHustleBandGetRecords

My family did a lot of road trips across these continental United States when I was a kid. Twenty or so of us would caravan in four or five vehicles and hit every corner of the connected 48.

Sterling K. Brown

FamilyRoadConnectedKidCornerUs

Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.

Stella McCartney

MomentLosingMum

I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del.

Tom Douglas

HometownMayorMadeOnceNewark

Sometimes when you are winning, you don't see your flaws; you don't see what you are not good at.

Robbie Lawler

GoodWinningYouFlawsSometimes

What is faithfulness, anyway? Can you be unfaithful to your own feelings and faithful to someone else? Is it faithful to lie in bed night after night with someone you love but no longer desire while ardently dreaming of someone else?

Mary Gaitskill

LoveLieNightSomeoneYouFeelings

They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but they are the major indicator of whether the manufacturing industry accepts there is a sustainable business in RFID production.

Mike Marsh

BusinessWillRiskManufacturing

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

Chuck Schumer

MoneyWarInfrastructureBeenSpend

I'm a lawyer; I win arguments for a living.

Bob Goff

WinLawyerLiving

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