Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts They still think they're the gods of antiquity If something you missed didn't even exist It was just an ideal is it such a surprise?

Elvis Costello

• Grace
• Surprise
• Exist
• Leaders
• Stupidity
• Barricades

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• I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • World
  • Death
  • Interesting

• I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Practice
  • Guitar

• A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Work
  • Great
  • Liberty

• Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Love
  • Faith
  • For Her

• The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Why
  • Personality
  • Find

• The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Giving
  • Picture
  • Key

• The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Peace
  • Sorry
  • Been

• To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Understanding
  • End

• What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Music
  • Remember
  • You

• The great object is that every man be armed.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Great
  • War
  • Man

• I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.'

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Time
  • Comedy
  • Tired

• God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Loved

• I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Together
  • Deep
  • Tools

• I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Acting
  • Stage
  • Say

• You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Together

• Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Women
  • Technology
  • Fashion

• I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Live
  • News
  • Phone

• I'm a polyatheist - there are many gods I don't believe in.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Believe
  • Gods
  • Polyatheist

• Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties, many countries, many governments, many electorates participate and we could have events which, rationally, are not controllable.

  

  Evangelos Venizelos
  • Events
  • Europe
  • Governments

• Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears.

  

  Charles Seymour Robinson
  • Children
  • Jesus
  • Silence

• What was dark but the absence of light?

  

  Josh Malerman
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Absence

• Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts They still think they're the gods of antiquity If something you missed didn't even exist It was just an ideal is it such a surprise?

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Grace
  • Surprise
  • Exist