Top 639 Billy Pilgrim Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
There's one profound difference between secular and religious pilgrimages. It's inconceivable that a Muslim would feel a sense of anticlimax when reaching Mecca. But for a secular pilgrim, the potential for disappointment is always there.
My great-grandfather was a variety hall comedian called Billy Mack.
BEFORE THERE WAS BILLY COLLINS & TED KOOSER, THERE WAS EDGAR GUEST
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
I'm not the most attractive fella. I'm not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.
A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity.
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
Billy's an interesting guy. He's got a lot of varied interests.
'Billy on the Street' is a persona. It's crafted; it has writers. It's a mixture of performance art and comedy.
Most Billy Joel songs make me want to cry a little.
Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be!
When my father was very young, he performed in Billy Rose's Aquacade.
Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
One host I love watching is Billy Crystal. His hosting was never scripted, it was organic.
I love film noir, so Billy Wilder is like my favorite director of all time.
When [Billy] Strayhorn came on the scene, he just blew us away.
We have a whole art department on 'Billy on the Street.' We give away dioramas that we've made.
I like the way Billy Idol sings. Mommy turned me on to him.
Nostradamus, who predicted that Billy Bailey would not come home. Never got a dinner!
Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?
Alice! A childish story take,
And with a gentle hand,
Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined
In Memory's mystic band,
Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers
Plucked in far-off land.
The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Syndrome Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy.
Billy Martin was a human tragedy, in the real sense of the words.
Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.
A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.
Billy Crystal... I crap bigger than him.
He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.
We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones. Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by, As you are now so once was I: As I am so will you be.
Tom Kizzia hasn't just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he's lived it. 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' is a story that needed to be told by the only man who could tell it.
Billy Loes was the only player in the majors who could lose a ground ball in the sun
I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.
I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.
I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.'
I can tell you the actor who I admire the most. Billy Crudup. Do you know who he is? He's awesome.
Just being the son of Billy Graham won't get me into heaven.
Billy Connolly is probably the greatest stand-up this country has ever produced and he swears all the time.
The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
Billy Sheehan has always been my number one favorite bass player of all time.
I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory and greatness...whereto all kindreds of the earth will pilgrim.
My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.
I couldn't accept the racial epithets in reference to players like Elliott Maddox or Billy Sample.
I love Billy Joel's music, but let's put it this way - I think this is a frustrated, ugly man.
And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.
When I'm up against a wall, that's when Billy Mays performs best.
Billy Campbell who is... I... truly one of the most talented actors today.
'Billy on the Street' is a very exhausting show to do, as you can imagine, but it's worth it.
Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.
'Sunset Boulevard' by Billy Wilder, it's one of my favorite films. I love all the movies from the 1950s.
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.
The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the people in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.
YI think what's cool about 'Scott Pilgrim' is that it shows that there is a superhero within all of us. There's not one ideal image of what a superhero looks like, and you don't really see that until the end of the film.
People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.'
There is a need for improving connectivity of Mathura through air as well as connecting neighbouring pilgrim sites such as Barsana, Gokul, Dauji through a single rail route.
It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel.
I want to play someone like Billy the Kid.
Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but a refugee-an escapist. Instead of meditation and reflection there is only speed, fear and “distraction.
I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.
If you approach Billy Martin right, he's Okay. I avoid him altogether.
There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
