Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

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• In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • People
  • Everyone
  • Immigrants

• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • High
  • Dark

• If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • World
  • Career
  • Thoughts

• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Media

• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Smart
  • Poverty
  • Immigration

• I'm extremely determined and ambitious.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Determined
  • Ambitious

• As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

  

  T. V. Carpio
  • Up
  • Trying
  • New

• Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • History
  • Growing

• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Stop
  • Building
  • Closing

• I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Theory
  • Piano
  • Started

• My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Dad

• I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Democratic
  • Normally

• For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Water
  • Falling

• I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Play
  • See

• Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Real
  • You

• I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Good
  • Work
  • Strong

• The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Think
  • Romantic
  • Last

• The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • People
  • Together
  • Serious

• I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Up
  • God
  • Mind

• I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me again on the eve of my 80th birthday. Even so, I hope we don't all start living to be 120. I'm not sure I'd cope with another 60 years.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Good
  • Long
  • Live

• I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.

  

  James Bay
  • Music
  • Black

• My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was.

  

  John Burnside
  • Father
  • Guy

• I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Work
  • School
  • Single