Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

Elvis Costello

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• It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Country
  • Money
  • Impossible

• If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Culture

• I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.

  

  Damon Hill
  • People
  • Long
  • Concerned

• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Weapons
  • Favor
  • Bat

• It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Important
  • Think
  • Indians

• Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Know
  • Animals
  • Recognize

• If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Country
  • War
  • Day

• I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Community
  • Rights
  • Supporting

• People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • People
  • Me
  • Finding

• Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Children
  • Today
  • Culture

• The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Mistake
  • Thought

• You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • You
  • Need
  • Lucky

• When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Mother
  • Wife
  • Environment

• I find the comic book audience a lot more intense than the fantasy one, definitely.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Book
  • Audience
  • Find

• The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Beautiful
  • Management
  • Anger

• I was determined to be an actor and make a name in the industry, and hence, I did.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Actor
  • Name
  • Determined

• Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • House
  • Taken

• Summer is a drag because even normal people become obsessed with their bodies. A bad bathing suit can humiliate you more tan anything else in life.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Life
  • Bad

• A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and modern influences would presently bring me up to date and reveal how antiquated my origins were. To turn away from those origins, however, has always seemed to me an utter impossibility. It would be a treason to my first consciousness to un-Jew myself.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Soul
  • Belief
  • Influence

• Faith is central to my life. I am who I am, I do what I do because of my faith.

  

  Kent Brantly
  • Life
  • Faith

• As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Important
  • Control
  • Calm

• As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.

  

  Ellen Perry
  • Cat
  • Owner

• Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

  

  Elvis Costello