Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

You can be addicted to misery the same way as you can be addicted to drugs.

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• The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Serious
  • Journalism

• What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Important
  • Simple
  • Evolution

• Liability limit has become a symbol of corporate greed in passing the risk of disaster to the U.S. government and U.S. citizens.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Risk
  • Greed

• I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

  

  Adele
  • Myself
  • Things
  • Insecure

• For did my dreams come true when I looked at you. And maybe too, if you would believe, you too might be overjoyed, over loved, over me.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Believe
  • True
  • Dreams

• Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals, speak on every subject. Then tie him up and hold him over the volcano's edge, and on that day, you will finally meet the man.

  

  Xiang Yu
  • Up
  • Men
  • Live

• In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life

• The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Service
  • Management
  • Differences

• The Holy Spirit has his own personality .He therefore moves in at will when we least expect it, and sometimes when we are least deserving of it.

  

  R. T. Kendall
  • Personality

• Meetings between Presidents, as you know, are supposed to be privileged. They're supposed to be confidential. They're supposed to allow the president and other leaders to have frank exchanges.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • President
  • Leader
  • Frank

• I want to be the girl with the most cake.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Girl
  • Cake

• There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Life
  • Years
  • Three

• If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Beauty
  • Ugliness
  • Beholder

• As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Race
  • Common
  • Burden

• At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Burning
  • Vanished
  • Executioner

• When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Soul
  • Health
  • Kill

• It was bothering me a lot, and I became addicted to pain medication, which is like what dragged me down. When we first started talking about this thing, I was like pretty much out of it, but I wanted to do it. So I needed to get myself overhauled, cleaned up and everything else to do this, because I wanted to do it, you know?

  

  Mick Mars Mötley Crüe
  • Myself
  • Get
  • Medication

• You can be addicted to misery the same way as you can be addicted to drugs.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Drugs
  • Addicted
  • Same Way