Billy Collins Quotes

I'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Jerzy Kosinski

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You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.

Max Brooks

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It's not just the light weights that give a long toned look with the Tracy Anderson Method, it's using the body in different rotations while contracting and releasing the muscle, causing it to stretch and lengthen.

Tracy Anderson

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For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

Mike Pence

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Once labeled a felon, you are ushered into a parallel social universe. You can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education and public benefits - forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind.

Michelle Alexander

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I have enormous respect for anyone who would offer to sacrifice their life to defend my right to live. Is there any greater gift one can give another?

Michael Moore

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Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.

Milan Kundera

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At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.

Aravind Adiga

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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Thomas Sowell

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The studio does projects all over the world, and in each place, we focus on trying to make a project specific to that place. We take a different perspective everywhere we work - our passion is public projects, wherever they are.

Thomas Heatherwick

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In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

Rickie Lee Jones

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We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.

Nina Easton

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