Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.

Elvis Costello

• Doors
• Paradise
• Trip
• Broadening

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• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Job
  • Perfect

• I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Same
  • Walk

• Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Never
  • Boy

• I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Think
  • Ask
  • Actually

• With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Great
  • Brain
  • Connection

• I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • School
  • Want
  • Yourself

• I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Change
  • Voice
  • Before

• Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Man
  • Meaning

• I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Feel
  • Fearless

• Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Play
  • Problem
  • Thought

• We should learn to think with our fingers.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru

• Diligence, hard work, foresight, entrepreneurship and God's blessing.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Work
  • God

• Everybody's a nun.

  

  J. D. Salinger

• Advice, n. The smallest current coin.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Advice

• More time than not, athletes, specifically fighters, have a 15 or 20-year career, and unfortunately, we end up right where we started when it's over. All we have is maybe a round of applause when we walk in a room - Hey, there's the champ! That's great; I want that, but I've got to have something tangible to show for it, too.

  

  Andre Ward
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• You don't start out getting into the gym and bench pressing 300 pounds. You start out by doing the bar.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • Gym

• I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

  

  Philip Levine
  • Parents

• Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • World
  • Trust
  • Hardest

• Everyone must hoe his plot daily.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Plot
  • Hoe

• Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Paradise
  • Believed
  • Rivers

• I pretty much admire anybody who has the discipline and the will to make a career out of fighting. It takes buckets of nerve.

  

  Katie Kitamura
  • Pretty
  • Career
  • Fighting

• You work really hard to make it, and maybe you get some acclaim, but then you realize there are certain limitations as an actor.

  

  James Franco
  • Work

• I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Doors
  • Paradise
  • Trip