Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll call it my imaginary friend If I am bleeding I'll call it wine But if you leave me then I am broken And if I'm broken then only death remains.

Elvis Costello

• Death
• Friend
• Broken
• Laughter

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• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Say

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'

  

  Nate Parker
  • Movies
  • Now
  • Message

• I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Different
  • Past
  • Way

• An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Home

• My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Why
  • Day
  • Fly

• I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • American
  • Think

• Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Legacy
  • Publishing
  • Vehicle

• It's about players making choices as they play, and then dealing with the consequences of those choices. It's about you telling your story, not me telling mine. It's about you.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Me
  • Choices
  • Consequences

• A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Stronger
  • Defence
  • NATO

• Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Movie
  • Growing
  • Video

• Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Fate

• Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE F*CKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the f*ck does idiotic things like that? How did they not die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Time
  • Good
  • Die

• I really like kids.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Kids

• I love chicken. But, like a lot of chefs and cooks, I get tired of preparing it the same way.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Tired

• True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

  

  Corliss Lamont
  • Character
  • True
  • Freedom

• A disciple asked, 'Who is a Master?' The Master replied, 'Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Life
  • Ego

• One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

  

  Jim DeMint
  • World
  • Parents
  • Dad

• A tailor is a person's best friend as far as I'm concerned, because you can take things that fit OK or look OK, and if you get them tailored, they can be fabulous.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Friend

• Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Death
  • Discovered
  • Flavors

• I don't think anything surprised me. It was very hard for me, this story, The Snack, as a father. I have family in the army in Israel, I know families that lose their children, and I think this is the most hard thing, is faith. Because what happens after death is always belief, it's always something that you don't have any answers about, and I think the movie helps you to understand that death is part of the life. It makes it more natural.

  

  Aviv Alush
  • Death
  • Faith
  • Surprised

• If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll call it my imaginary friend If I am bleeding I'll call it wine But if you leave me then I am broken And if I'm broken then only death remains.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Death
  • Friend
  • Broken