Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder.

Elvis Costello

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• Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Everything
  • Far
  • Magnificent

• Nate Diaz is a tough opponent. I've fought him.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Tough
  • Him
  • Opponent

• Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Always
  • Grace
  • State

• I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Beginning
  • Vision
  • Movies

• We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Mother

• As long as you are successful and winning matches, the language is no problem at all. But when the results are insufficient, the difficulties begin. At this time, a coach needs to go into more detail with his instructions, and that's where the problems can lie.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Time
  • Long
  • Winning

• A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Good
  • Women
  • Marriage

• The stories about the life and teachings of Jesus were mainly told in Greek, the original language of the gospels.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • Greek

• Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.

  

  Charles Evers
  • People
  • Black

• I've realised that if I aim for a successful record, I probably won't have any success. But if I keep making weird things, then hopefully the audiences will come to us.

  

  Diplo
  • Success
  • Weird

• We'll continue to invest in new technology because we think every woman should have the ability to be connected through her beauty knowledge, opinions, products, and routine.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Knowledge
  • Technology

• Rather than forcing local factories to clean up after themselves, Changzhou decided to outsource the job of managing its water supply to a French company named Veolia - one of a handful of corporate giants now scrambling to take over city water systems around the planet, especially in the often polluted and water-short developing world.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Up
  • World
  • Job

• Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.

  

  Kavita Ramdas
  • Women
  • Struggle

• My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.

  

  Jewel Kilcher

• One of my favourite things about living in the U.K. is having that chance to go to festivals.

  

  Katherine Ryan

• A fantasy of mine is being pulled up onstage by one of my favorite bands and singing or playing an instrument with them.

  

  Tyler Posey
  • Up
  • Singing

• As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

  

  Frank Ocean

• I just keep fighting and try to be the last one standing.

  

  Li Na
  • Fighting

• I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • World

• Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.

  

  Lance Loud
  • May
  • Mother
  • Parents

• When I think about fashion and elegance, I imagine a woman from the 1950s, on an airplane, with seamed stockings and a garment belt underneath, a skirt, high heels, and her hair that she's done the night before, perfectly done eyeliner, lipstick, gloves, perhaps, and all this just to sit on an airplane for a transcontinental flight.

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Done
  • She
  • High

• There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Lipstick
  • Powder
  • Cover up