Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too.

Elvis Costello

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• My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Think
  • Gay

• For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • People
  • World
  • Fashion

• Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

  

  Ed Koch
  • World
  • Power
  • Fall

• Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • World
  • America
  • Change

• You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Work
  • Real
  • Remember

• Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Man
  • Political
  • Speech

• I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.

  

  Vanessa Lengies
  • Time
  • Different
  • Challenge

• It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Movie
  • You
  • Story

• But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Think
  • Pain
  • Loved

• But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • Women
  • Black

• It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Always
  • Start
  • Circle

• Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Moon

• I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect them like other people collect teapots. I don't know why I love them so much. I'm just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • Life
  • Like

• Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Gullible

• There's definitely been times where there's stuff that I have not been comfortable with, and I've had to put my foot down.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Down
  • Comfortable
  • Where

• O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• No one trains like me. No one rides like me. This jersey's mine. I live for this jersey. It's my life. No one's taking it away from me. This fucking jersey's mine.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Life
  • Live

• It wasn’t what was done to you. Life was what you did with what was done to you.

  

  Kameron Hurley
  • Life
  • Done

• Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Future
  • Religious
  • Violence

• I've learned that it doesn't matter how your husband squeezes the toothpaste, the important thing is how he squeezes you.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Important
  • Husband

• For a while, I was working on transcribing rap lyrics and then converting them into rhythmic patterns on the piano. And so in my mind, when I was taking a solo, I would be saying the lyrics and trying to play actual notes to their rhythms. Now, the influence just comes in and out in my playing.

  

  Jason Moran
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Rap

• Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.

  

  Meg Ryan
  • Mind
  • True
  • Comedy

• In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Mind
  • Torn
  • Irresistible