Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down.

Elvis Costello

• Nation
• Consider
• Flag
• Crown
• Weigh

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• I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Like
  • New
  • Looking

• Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Think
  • Easy
  • Tough

• In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Time
  • Long
  • King

• Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Education
  • Progress
  • Better

• My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd done it - the people I'd written about.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • People
  • Done
  • Eye

• I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Down

• I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Good
  • Want
  • Just

• It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Three

• With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Good
  • You
  • Software

• Hamish is worried about ending up like my parents, who each spend time in their two homes in Bundanoon and Sydney. But that's how their marriage has lasted.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Up
  • Time
  • Parents

• I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Space

• My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Free

• I once said some mean things about someone, and they were standing right behind me. That experience taught me to never talk bad about anyone.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Never

• We are not afraid to be entertainers.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Afraid
  • Entertainers

• ... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Time
  • Field
  • Gravitational

• If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I am probably not a believer. But if you mean that it is not all accidental, that there is a mystery to existence, a deeper meaning, that I do believe in.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Believe
  • Mystery

• O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Heaven
  • Consider
  • Ghost

• Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?

  

  Albert Allen Bartlett
  • People
  • Nation
  • Crowd

• Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Technology
  • Car

• We kind of write pop songs, but we don't fit in the pop world. We're really bad at being pop stars and walking down red carpets. We've got our own little bubble, which we really like. We've learned to really like that.

  

  Katie White
  • World
  • Writing
  • Song

• A friend worth your tears, will never make you cry.

  

  William Conner
  • Friend
  • Tears
  • Make

• Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Nation
  • Consider
  • Flag