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
  • Reading

• 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

• You got to be careful mentioning people as great as Clint Eastwood. You can't put me in the same sentence as that man.

  

  Jason Statham
  • People
  • Great

• The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Men
  • Family
  • Society

• I will always need my son, no matter what age I am. My son has made me laugh, made me proud, made me cry, seen me cry, hugged me tight, seen me fail, cheered me up, kept me on my toes, and at times driven me crazy, But my son is a promise that I will have a friend forever!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Age
  • Friend

• Do not, the angel told her, 'ask to see him. His love is a flood. His glory is a fire. You could not withstand it.

  

  Adam Foulds
  • Love
  • Angel
  • Glory

• 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