Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

Elvis Costello

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• My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • Opinion
  • Media
  • Too Much

• Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Wife
  • Soup
  • Sharing

• I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Film
  • Thing
  • Directing

• I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Sound

• I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Women
  • Know
  • Romantic

• God made them as stubble to our swords.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Made
  • Our

• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Money
  • Sometimes
  • London

• I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must be a very nice person'.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • She
  • Think

• If I could marry my motorcycle, I'd roll her right up to the altar.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Right
  • Motorcycle
  • Marry

• By flattening time and space, social computing and business is unlocking credible potential within business. For example, individuals and organizations that weren't connected before are now connected together.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Time
  • Business
  • Together

• It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Job
  • Economic
  • Incentives

• I don't consider myself a fashion designer.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Fashion
  • Myself
  • Designer

• Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • School
  • High

• If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Feeling
  • Doing
  • Down

• It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • People
  • Children
  • She

• I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Time
  • War
  • Acting

• You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • You
  • Wife
  • Devil

• I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don't have a dog, I can just pet my bag!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Worry
  • Dog
  • Pet

• The ass bears the load, but not the overload.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Ass
  • Load
  • Overload

• Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.

  

  Rumi
  • Heart
  • Write
  • Poem

• You could conceive spirituality as the study of the immeasurable, of the qualitative. But that's very different from the way we typically use the word. A spiritual person, in the popular conception, is somebody who's kind of aloof from the world, introspective, meditating, communing with non-material beings. That's the spiritual realm, and we elevate it above the material realm. What's more worthy, what's more admirable? Who's the one who has done this hard work on the self, and has done a lot of "practice"? That's the spiritual person.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • World
  • Different
  • Done

• I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.

  

  Claude Chabrol

• It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role.

  

  Elizabeth Pena
  • People
  • Business
  • Movie

• I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

  

  Elvis Costello