#billy

..it is a fact that money exhilarates people, it puts them in hysterias of good cheer, they suddenly care about you and want the best for you. ↗

— E. L. Doctrow

#money-happiness #money-talks #money

JAPAN Today I pass the time reading a favorite haiku, saying the few words over and over. It feels like eating the same small, perfect grape again and again. I walk through the house reciting it and leave its letters falling through the air of every room. I stand by the big silence of the piano and say it. I say it in front of a painting of the sea. I tap out its rhythm on an empty shelf. I listen to myself saying it, then I say it without listening, then I hear it without saying it. And when the dog looks up at me, I kneel down on the floor and whisper it into each of his long white ears. It's the one about the one-ton temple bell with the moth sleeping on its surface, and every time I say it, I feel the excruciating pressure of the moth on the surface of the iron bell. When I say it at the window, the bell is the world and I am the moth resting there. When I say it at the mirror, I am the heavy bell and the moth is life with its papery wings. And later, when I say it to you in the dark, you are the bell, and I am the tongue of the bell, ringing you, and the moth has flown from its line and moves like a hinge in the air above our bed. ↗

— Billy Collins

#japan #poem #life

I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#alec #billy #cough #get #good

I get to hang out with Billy Bob Thornton at his house. We hang out over there every time we're in L.A., because he doesn't go out. We'll hang and he'll play us some of his tunes. It's pretty awesome. ↗

— Chris Daughtry

#because #billy #bob #every #every time

I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda. ↗

— Jack Black

#billy #billy joel #cheese #cheesy #corny

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius. ↗

— Linda Blair

#billy #director #genius #i #i think

I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn. ↗

— Greg Evigan

#am #angeles #back #billy #chicago

I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.' ↗

— Lance Burton

#always #call #feel #hello #hillbilly

I like old tunes when I'm driving. They're fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing. ↗

— Jenson Button

#driving #fun #i #kind #like

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#associate #automatically #billy #billy joel #guy