44 Costello Quotes

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Famous Costello Quotes

He wished to keep Lanzetti, who only wants to please La Becchera, but he is wrong, because La Isola and associate are not worth the money. — Antonio Vivaldi

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. — Pope John Paul II

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. - Robert Bloch

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. — Robert Bloch

When the devil grows poor he becomes a tax collector — Greek Proverbs

He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels — Henri Michaux

Damn to him who ever lived to wear a Halter! — Bartholomew Roberts

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. — William Shakespeare

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. - Will Rogers

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. — Will Rogers

While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm. — Rita Mae Brown

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. — Lydia M. Child

A fool and his money are soon elected. - Will Rogers

A fool and his money are soon elected. — Will Rogers

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. — Robert Louis Stevenson

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. - William Shakespeare

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. — William Shakespeare

Sooner or later, everybody pays the Piper! — Roddy Piper

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders. — Juvenal

Short Costello Quotes

  • Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept. — Harvey Korman
  • Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello. — David Lee Roth
  • It gets boring at home. How many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on TV? — Bud Abbott
  • Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person. — Tim Heidecker
  • Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello — David Lee Roth
  • When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him. — Nick Lowe

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More Costello Quotes

Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan, Mary Costello has created one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary fiction. What a marvel of a book. — Ron Rash

As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott. — Laura Lippman

My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film scores to artists like R.E.M., Ben Folds, Prince, Annie Lennox, the Police, Elvis Costello, Cat Stevens, the Ditty Bops, local bands that friends of mine are in, and the list goes on... I have no single favorite genre or artist. — Stephanie D'Abruzzo

We've always had a lot of different influences and we've always liked catchy music from the Beatles to Cheap Trick to Elvis Costello. — Chuck Comeau

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it. — Nick Lowe

It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television? — Bud Abbott

People are going to see both of us and think it's an Abbott and Costello kind of thing. It's not an easy switch. It's not an easy transition from TV to film. — Ray Romano

The appeal for drugs has dwindled. Except for actual opium. If I could get real opium, I'd stir it in my hot coffee every morning. People keep giving me marijuana. I've got pouches in a drawer. I've been meaning to smoke a joint and watch Abbott and Costello Go to Mars. I planned to do this three months ago and I still haven't gotten around to it. — Nick Tosches

The straight man has to know to relate to the comic. When I think of the great comedy teams, I think of Martin & Lewis, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello. — Marty Allen

At network television you could make a show like Freaks and Geeks, and even though 7 million people watch is every week, you were considered a terrible failure, and they got rid of you and staff. Now ... It's like a world where the replacements are the biggest fans in the world. It's, the Elvis Costellos of television are the winners. Creativity is king and it's very very exciting. — Judd Apatow

I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me. — Patrick Stump

You know, we recently played a benefit with my husband, Elvis Costello, and Sir Elton John, who is a mutual friend of ours. Playing with Elvis and Elton and accompanying them with my band was a pretty euphoric experience. — Diana Krall

My earliest childhood memories are of watching Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. I remember not liking Frankenstein then and going, "Who is this bald guy?" But I love it now. — Quentin Tarantino

What happens with Mad Men, its like an Elvis Costello album; Ill watch it, and then I immediately have to watch it again. AMC will play it back-to-back. I have a tendency to yell at it when my wifes not around because if she catches me yelling at Mad Men, then it gets weird. — Michael Weatherly

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever. — Chip Esten

Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks — Elliott Smith

No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice). — J. M. Coetzee

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