298 Quotes by Elvis Costello

Clowntime is over Time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody’s watching where the others don’t walk.

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

I could promise that I’ll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.

It’s the damage that we do and never know. It’s the words that we don’t say that scare me so.

I’m just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury.

Serious music usually doesn’t pay.

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it’s just going to be an obscurity.

I’m not going to get too sentimental, like those other sticker valentines, ’cause I don’t know if you are loving some body. I only know it isn’t mine.