Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

Elvis Costello

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• Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Way
  • Wisdom
  • Ignore

• Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • History
  • Dangerous
  • Ride

• We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Help
  • Earth
  • Know

• Indian IT corporations have made work in the U.S. much more efficient by enhancing their productivity and quality of work. We have helped to add sufficient value to the corporations in the U.S.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Work
  • Value
  • Quality

• You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Remember

• Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Worry
  • Out
  • Too

• Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Past
  • Crazy
  • Planning

• Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Human
  • Natural
  • Potential

• I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Believe
  • Country
  • California

• Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Great
  • Forgotten

• How you feel about the modern, multitouch tablet depends a lot on what you think Steve Jobs and company set out to do with the iPad back in 2010. If you believe he was out to make a bigger smartphone or to entirely replace the Mac and PC, you're wrong.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Company

• Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • You
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Present
  • Magic

• I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Best
  • Training
  • Management

• In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Effort

• Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square, From the first point of his appointed sourse, And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • World
  • Daily

• 'I think that I will not answer that question,' he said at last. 'I would create as many false images as there were ears to hear me.''Half as many,' Clissum pointed out delicately.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Question

• Sympathy is the surest destruction of selfishness. Children, like the grown person, grow the better for participation in the sufferings where their own only share is pity.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Children
  • Sympathy

• What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Live
  • Money
  • Band

• Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I've met with, and I've met them all: It's never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

  

  Joe Biden
  • World
  • Good
  • America

• Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

  

  Mary Quant
  • Money
  • Fun

• The big, big block in the Arthur/Merlin friendship is the status issue, that Merlin is the servant and Arthur is royalty, and in that time, princes did not socialize with their servants; that wasn't the done thing. It just so happens that their relationship, their friendship, is strong: they have been through the thick and the thin of it all.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • Time
  • Done
  • Strong

• Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

  

  David F. Houston
  • Small

• I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

  

  Elvis Costello