« All Things Quotes · Elvis Costello's Page
Things Quotes by Elvis Costello
- There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder.
- These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
- There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something.…
- Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And…
- The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.
- There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.
- My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different…
- There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.
- But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.
- People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes…
- Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle