Top 252 Quotes & Sayings by Elvis Presley - Page 4

What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?

If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins.

Some guys fall in love with one girl, I gotta fall for two.

Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go.

Don't step on my blue suede shoes.

C'mon, let's get real, real gone.

In my beach shack, we'll be alone. In my beach shack, I'll make you feel at home.

Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfill. For my darling, I love you, and I always will.

She touched my hand what a chill I got, her lips are like a volcano that's hot.

Her little sister will tell you she don't live here anymore.

I don't feel I'll live a long life. That's why I have to get what I can from every day.

I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I'm flaming, I must be a hundred and nine.

Don't leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.

I've never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I'm pretty concerned, I'm pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don't let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it's a new crowd out there, it's a new audience, and they haven't seen us before. So it's got to be like the first time we go on.

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time.

I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath.

Didja ever get one of them girls who just wants to watch the show?

Folks always look good in their coffins.

I was almost always true to you.

The only exercise I get is on the stage. If I didn't get that, I'd get a little round around the tummy, as much as I eat.

Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can't help falling in love with you.

I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures.

If you talk in your sleep, don't mention my name. If you walk in your sleep, forget where you came.

It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes me look smarter than I am. I've never even had an idea for a song. Just once, mybe.

I didn't know that there were any radio stations in Nova Scotia.

The world is more alive at night; it's like God isn't looking.

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now.

I can't sing very well but I'd like to try.

Make me feel at home, if you really care, scratch my back and run your pretty fingers through my hair.

You're so square, baby, I don't care.

I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But I never bump and grind. Why, that's vulgar. I'd never do anything vulgar before an audience. My mother would never allow it.

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

I get sometimes; I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd.

When I started singing, I weighed 153 pounds. I weigh 184 now. I haven't gotten any taller, but I'm putting on a little more weight.

Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I've lost my mind.

On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries.

Since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel.

TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS...guess Elvis use to say it alot and had necklaces made with initials TCB

When we're dancing it almost feels the same, I've got to stop myself from whispering your name.

I'm left, you're right, and she's gone. You're right, and I'm left all alone.

We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall.

He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun.

Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them.

So many kids and adults, too, have gotten just about one of the roughest breaks that can happen to a person. We can help these people.

The walls have ears, better think before you throw that shoe.

I thought that I was in heaven But I was sure surprised Heaven help me, I didn't see The devil in your eyes You look like an angel Walk like an angel Talk like an angel But I got wise You're the devil in disguise Oh yes you are The devil in disguise

How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I'm feeling sad.

Number 47 said to number 3, you're the cutest jailbird I ever did see.

I'm evil, my middle name is misery. Well, I'm evil, so don't mess around with me.

Don't tell me baby you gotta go, I got the hifi high and the lights down low.

Ma'am, I'm not tryin' to be sexy. Ah didn't have any clear idea of trying to sell sex. It's just my way of expressin' how I feel when I move around. It's all leg movement. I don't do nothin' with my body.

Blacko-oxy-tonic phosphate, it's the latest scoop. But that's alright girls, you can call it goop.

I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like.

It's not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.

I saw three shrimp in the water, two were old and gray. I swam a little closer, and I heard the third one say, good-bye Mama.

My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back.

Samson told Delilah loud and clear, keep your cotton picken fingers out of my hair.

Any audience, as a rule, goes for a fast number.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

I go for all the belles, except the wedding kind.