Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.

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• I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Down

• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Faith
  • Light
  • Dark

• I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Think
  • Want
  • Coach

• I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Business
  • Enjoy

• Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Mother
  • Sins
  • Beware

• A number of organizations are already using Web GIS to create shared information and facilitate collaboration, and it is literally changing the way organizations operate.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Information
  • Collaboration

• We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Government
  • Democracy

• I like to stay home with my family.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Family
  • Home
  • Like

• The regulation of medicine has been a State function.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Medicine
  • Been
  • Regulation

• I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • People
  • School
  • Influence

• Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Book
  • Being
  • Reporting

• This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Different
  • City
  • Dreams

• A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Space

• The destructiveness of the tar sands is not inevitable. But Canadians and Albertans have become too tolerant of the politicians who compromise the nation's energy security as well as the next generation's future.

  

  Andrew Nikiforuk
  • Future
  • Energy

• I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • Black

• In this business, things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me; that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Business
  • Waves

• This is a whole new world to explore as a developer to go in and learn these new gameplay mechanics, to learn what it's like to actually control a character from a top-down, 'God's eye' view, and to figure out how the game camera can be controlled by the player's head.

  

  Brendan Iribe
  • World
  • God
  • Character

• I turned 40, and things started to go south.

  

  Nell Scovell

• You give birth to that on which you fix your mind.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Mind
  • Birth

• 'It has always seemed strange to me,' said Doc. 'The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success.'

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Men
  • Success
  • Feeling

• Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and ambiguous medium. On the other hand, I trained as a documentary filmmaker in film school, so my films very much reflect reality and socio-political problems. They're less subtle I would say.

  

  Xiaolu Guo
  • School
  • Heart
  • Reality

• I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.

  

  Donald E. Westlake
  • Time
  • Hope

• There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Forget
  • Regret