Elvis Costello Quotes

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

Elvis Costello

Recitation: by Male by Female

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HappinessMoreCookieFortuneDeeper

I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected our income.

Viola Davis

SpaceMeEnvironmentKindPoorAway

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they're all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

Jerry Seinfeld

LovePeopleEndYouDownKnow

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

Jennette McCurdy

ThinkWriteUpWouldPoemsMelodies

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

John Naisbitt

LawyersUpGetLikeDamMainstream

We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.

Ann Macbeth

SupportEnoughIndependentOutHere

The knowledge and insights you can get in just one day at a writers' conference make it worth the trip.

Tomi Adeyemi

KnowledgeDayWorthYouOne DayGet

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

Tom Seaver

BaseballConsistencyEndWorryYou

'Minute to Win It' is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called 'Beat the Clock,' in which contestants won washing machines and fox stoles by doing such pointless stunts as catching a tennis ball in a paper cup or knocking a hat off one's wife's head with a whipped-cream spritzer.

Tom Shales

WifeHatWinGameDoingFox

All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.

Diane von Furstenberg

StrengthWomenStrongAfraidOwn

I don't care who you are. You can be the smallest person off the street, or you could be the biggest person in the world. I'm going to treat everybody the same - with respect.

DeMar DeRozan

RespectWorldTreatCareYouPerson

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

Claude Chabrol

LoveMirrorsThroughThingsSurface

Studs are the easiest way to add some edge to your outfit.

Brad Goreski

OutfitEdgeWayYourAddSome

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