Billy Collins Quotes

The whole world of publishing is moving to electronic, but when you put a poem on a screen and you increase the type size, the shape of a poem changes.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MovingWorldYouChangesSizeShape

One of the reasons I never had a problem handing over my characters to other creators is that I knew that they would add their own influences and takes on the characters and make them better for it.

Jim Lee

BetterProblemNeverOverOwnWould

Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky.

Jo Brand

TravelNightDarkWayMoreSeems

In truth, government has been good to Wall Street and big business.

Robert Reich

GoodBusinessTruthGovernmentWall

Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets.

Max Baucus

SecurityYoungWillOutTakeSocial

I'm a huge sci-fi geek, and I also really get into all of the alien shows on the History Channel where you see air force pilots talking about UFOs - I love that stuff.

Matt Lanter

LoveHistoryTalkingYouAlienSee

I want to say to all of you that when I take my oath of office I will do my absolute best to use all of my abilities for all of the people of Ireland.

Michael D. Higgins

BestPeopleYouSayWantOffice

A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!

Sun Ra

GreatWorldPlanetDanger

'The Great Comic Book Artists' is about three score of the best practitioners of graphic story art.

Ron Goulart

GreatArtBestBookStoryThree

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Joyce Meyer

AttitudeNegativeCriticismGossip

I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canada. I left when I was three. My parents went to Miami, and that's where I grew up.

Joshua Henry

ParentsMiamiBornCanadaThreeUp

I couldn't stand it. It was what I thought I always wanted. I was there every day in the trenches, and I hated everything about that job. But what I loved - and what I got from 'The Tooth Fairy' - was to see how studio movies were released.

Jason Blum

DayJobThoughtStandLovedMovies

In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction allows for greater distillation.

Debra Granik

FeelYouComplicatedSometimesWant

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