Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.

Elvis Costello

• Truth
• Hurt
• Stark

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Important
  • Best

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nothing

• I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • School
  • Age
  • Learn

• Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Food
  • Resolution
  • Heartbreak

• Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Focus
  • Politics
  • Presidential

• You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Movie
  • Think
  • House

• It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • People
  • Art
  • Interesting

• When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Bad
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • May
  • Comedy
  • Follow

• Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Little
  • Enlightenment
  • Come

• I didn’t at first because horror movies scared me too much, but I really do love the genre and it’s a playground where you can really be artistic and create ideas in the minds of the audience and portray the unreal. It’s very cool experimentation ground for a filmmaker.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Cool

• It's pretty hard to stand in the queue auditioning to play a gynaecologist on 'Holby City' when you've just played Mandela. You think, 'Actually, I want to challenge myself.'

  

  David Harewood
  • Pretty
  • City
  • Challenge

• Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated.

  

  Jerome Isaac Friedman
  • High
  • Energy
  • Effort

• It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Management

• Miami is one of these places where diversity is in our blood, where, you know, if you want to go have a Nicaraguan breakfast, a Cuban lunch, and an American diner dinner, you do.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • American
  • Diversity
  • Breakfast

• If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would say 'We've got to change all these magazines a little bit. We have to bring out a different version of what is, like, cool. You know, what's winning. Joe Pesci, Burt Reynolds.'

  

  Jake Johnson
  • Different
  • Cool
  • Winning

• If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.

  

  Douglas Wilder
  • Truth
  • Running
  • Serious

• It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

  

  Mary Garden
  • Life
  • Children
  • Bad

• Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • People
  • High
  • Die

• I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Real
  • Independent

• The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Truth
  • Hurt
  • Stark