Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.

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• It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Taken

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

  

  Maggie Q
  • People
  • Love
  • Sometimes

• As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Red

• I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • American
  • Think
  • Myself

• People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Think
  • Team

• We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Home
  • War
  • New

• I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Kids
  • College
  • Baseball

• I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Want
  • Me
  • Angry

• I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • America
  • Spiritual
  • Influence

• I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Love
  • Everyone
  • To Love

• In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Family
  • Her
  • Respectable

• If you tell me 2 + 2 is 4, and I know it is, then you... shove marbles up your ass, I go 'Damn, Anthony shoves marbles in his ass?' But the fact that you shove marbles in your ass doesn't invalidate 2 + 2 = 4.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Up

• I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.

  

  Conor McGregor
  • Victory
  • Humble
  • Preparation

• So many men are deprived of grace. How can one live without grace? One has to try it and do what Christianity never did: be concerned with the damned.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Men
  • Live

• The great affair, we always find, is to get money.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Great
  • Money

• I'd say the majority of my friends are Australians, although I have some good American friends, but I think with Aussies, we just get it. We don't take each other too seriously, which is a relief.

  

  Bella Heathcote
  • Good
  • Friends
  • American

• In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

  

  Martin H. Fischer
  • Science
  • Understanding
  • Sick

• I've found through experience that I'm only good when I'm writing something that, in essence, only I could write. The times I've written for hire, for other people, I don't think I've done very well.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • People
  • Writing
  • Experience

• I bought the VHS of 'Into the Woods' at the Suncoast in the Park City Mall and watched it in the basement when I got home. And when it was over, I rewound it and immediately watched it again.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Home
  • City

• My teammates have put me in all different kinds of positions to score goals, and I can't say it enough, and I really through and through believe it in my heart that I'm only as good as my teammates allow me to be.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Different

• Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!And if upon its stillness fallThe visions of a busy brain,We'll have our pleasure o'er again,To warm the heart, to charm the sight,Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.

  

  Joanna Baillie
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Night

• The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Heart
  • Sleeve
  • Remarks