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BILLY CORGAN Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
BILLY CORGAN I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
BILLY CORGAN By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and lea...
BILLY CORGAN The best things in life are free- and $19.95.
BILLY MAYS He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
BILLY WILDER Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobi...
BILLY SUNDAY When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
BILLY GRAHAM I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are ...
BILLY JOEL Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
BILLY GIBBONS The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serv...
BILLY CORGAN I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
BILLY JOEL France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER I love it when someone insults me. That means I don't have to be nice anymore.
BILLY IDOL Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
BILLY JOEL Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
BILLY GRAHAM America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we...
BILLY GRAHAM The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because ...
BILLY GRAHAM No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross...
BILLY GRAHAM Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby ...
BILLY GRAHAM God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
BILLY GRAHAM One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselv...
BILLY COLLINS