Billy Collins Quotes

In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than Cummings.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PoetryLongNowBecomeMorePoet

They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them.

Robert Mueller

WorkOpportunityPeopleWorldYou

I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

LifeGoodTogetherI AmForwardYou

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are, you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

Tommy Lasorda

GoodWinYouLoseBadMatter

Connectivity offers a great opportunity for General Motors. When you look at the investment we have made in OnStar and putting 4GLT in and the access you have to not only put data in, and we haven't really tapped into the data you can use from the vehicle.

Mary Barra

OpportunityGreatDataYouLook

Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so.

Michael Leunig

AloneEasyRiseUpProtestWho

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

FreedomSufferingEvilFaceYou

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

Chen-Ning Yang

CultureQuestionChinaMuchHow

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

Tina Turner

WordsHeavenWantBecomeNotes

My wife loves football, but I think she's resigned to the fact that I'll never make it there.

Mario Andretti

FootballWifeThinkNeverSheFact

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

Maria Sharapova

WorkYouKnowSometimesNeverHard

True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume - with good reason - that this is what the apostles implied.

Lewis B. Smedes

GoodPeopleBelieveSayTrueWill

I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time.

Holly Hunter

TimeAppreciateYouWrongDeadGive

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