Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

Elvis Costello

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• I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Cool
  • Son
  • Walking

• Nothing is unfilmable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nothing

• Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Looking

• Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Lose
  • Praise
  • Half

• Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Attention
  • Ignore
  • Pay

• Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Good
  • Hunting
  • Fish

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• I think I need security.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Think
  • Need
  • Security

• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  

  Rachel Field
  • May
  • Think
  • Ambition

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Story
  • Cinderella

• When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Audience
  • Mirror

• My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Business
  • Dad
  • College

• Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Law
  • Question
  • Play

• Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I'm ready for a different America.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Different
  • America
  • Ready

• You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Believe
  • Talent

• Healthcare is a very complicated business and you need a very different business model to be successful in India; yet at a global level, there are a lot of challenges and opportunities.

  

  Malvinder Mohan Singh
  • Different
  • Business
  • Model

• People say to me all the time, 'When did you know that you had fully become an American?' And I say, 'The day I realized I loved peanut butter.'

  

  Ana Navarro
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• You never know who you're talking to. Don't limit a young student's dream, because that's how we change the world.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • World
  • Dream

• The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Work
  • Different

• Woman is the window through which we see the world.

  

  Georges Rodenbach
  • Woman
  • See
  • Window

• I am an originalist, to begin with. So, I am a constitutional conservative. I believe that the Constitution enshrines some universal ideals that make our country strong and that are consistent with truth, and so that's the basic thing.

  

  Evan McMullin
  • Truth
  • Constitution
  • Conservative

• My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Life