Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.Elvis Costello
Quotes to Explore
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
Ted Rall -
I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
Callan McAuliffe -
Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
Caprice Bourret -
In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
Carine Roitfeld -
To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
Gary Goetzman -
On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
Ingrid Betancourt
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I remember going to the Gap when I was in the fifth grade, and I desperately wanted a pair of blue jeans. I was with my dad, and I remember picking up the jeans, looking at them, and thinking that they had to fit me. But there was nothing that fit me. This was before the age of stretch, so I was trying on adult Gap.
Paloma Elsesser -
A few honest men are better than numbers.
Oliver Cromwell -
The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
E. O. Wilson -
Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.
Rand Paul -
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
Rabindranath Tagore -
The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.
Camille Paglia
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It is in this sense that Franklin says, 'war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.'
Karl Marx -
I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.
Orson Scott Card -
Where, where was Roderick then!One blast upon his bugle-hornWere worth a thousand men.
Walter Scott -
A man without money is a bow without an arrow.
Jack McDevitt -
...so go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.
Art Blakey -
Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones,Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.
Lord Byron
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Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.
Colum McCann -
Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.
Amish Tripathi -
I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
Oliver Stone -
I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain.
Pete Seeger -
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.
Elvis Costello