Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.

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• Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • World
  • Learn
  • Doing

• Learn from your dreams what you lack.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Learn
  • Dreams
  • Your Dreams

• The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Book
  • Learn
  • Teach

• If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Relationship
  • Dance
  • Learn

• Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • People
  • Country
  • Learn

• You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Laugh

• It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Work
  • Important
  • Growing

• I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learn
  • Difficult
  • Languages

• I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Learn
  • Psychology

• Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Work
  • Want
  • Learn

• It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Know
  • Me
  • Learn

• When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Bad
  • Learn

• The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Love
  • Learn
  • Greatest

• I'd rather be involved and somebody say, 'Hey, coach, here's what I need you to do. Go down to the D-League and work with guys'... I want the D-League coach to learn how to be a head coach.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Work
  • Want
  • Learn

• In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Rest

• If you want to earn more, learn more.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Want
  • You
  • Learn

• I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Learn
  • Write
  • Newspaper

• I think that’s how I work a little bit, is just to try to get a feeling going from what we’re playing, rather than knowing what we’re supposed to play, and let that feeling tell you what you’re gonna do. Sometimes it’s different.

  

  Steve Nieve
  • Feeling
  • Playing
  • Knowing

• Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Children
  • Years
  • Graduation

• The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland.

  

  Marian Burros
  • Thanksgiving
  • Losers
  • Turkeys

• I write to escape; to escape poverty.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Poverty
  • Write
  • Escape

• I’m sorry that your journey into my life was such that you had to endure so much suffering. But if that is the road God had you travel in order for our paths to cross, then we have no choice but to accept the purpose it has served and be grateful for it.

  

  Bernice L. McFadden
  • Suffering
  • Journey
  • No Choice

• If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.

  

  Elvis Costello
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