"I've spent a life time waiting for the right time, now that you're near, the time is here at last."
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Elvis Presley quotes (page 6 of 13)
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"The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year."
"The army teaches boys to think like men."
"Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me"
"I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play."
"I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me."
"I'm lonely like Adam and you're evil like Eve."
"You can do anything, but lay off my blue suede shoes"
"I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money."
"Live each day, as if it we're your last. It's written in the stars, your destiny is cast."
"Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth."
"I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck."
"There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out."
"I like pork chops and country ham, creamed potatoes, stuff like that. Redeye gravy. It comes from ham, bacon, stuff like that. It's the grease that you fry it in. I eat a lot of Jell-O. Fruit Jell-O."
"Love is a thing you never can share."
"More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me."
"I'll be a fool or a wiseman, my darling, you hold the key. Anyway you want me, that's how I will be."
"I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you."
"I look at you and wham, I'm head over heals. I guess that love is like a banana peel."
"I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this."