David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.

David Bowie

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• I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Control

• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Faith

• Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • True

• We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Night

• I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Thinking
  • Better
  • Start

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Thinking
  • Better
  • Start

• I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so heavy and hard.' But they have great ballads! Great ballads.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Time
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.

  

  Larry Miller
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Stop

• In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Think

• People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

  

  Sally Ride
  • You
  • Space
  • Waiting

• As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Mind

• The whole world is set up so that for places like Switzerland to exist, that are crime-free and with the best care for everybody, you have to have places like Sudan, or Jamaica. But really, there's enough to share, when you check it. It's not that complicated, really. It's probably less thinking and more feeling that's required.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I was thinking in the cab on the way here that when I did press for the original production it felt like this was what I’ve always dreamt of - to be talking about myself, and about a play that I’ve written, and to be photographed. It was what I wanted. Now it’s just part of the job.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Thinking
  • Job

• There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• It's dogged as does it. It's not thinking about it.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Thinking

• It's amazing to see anyone come out, let alone tell you they have been waiting so long. They are loyal people, our fans.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • People
  • Long
  • Alone

• I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Spirit

• I think that a real film fan experience is about a kind of omnivorous experience.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Kind

• The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Thinking
  • Taste
  • Prejudice

• The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant shuttling of opinions is tiring, and the shuffling of papers across desks, the chopping of logic and the trimming of attitudes. There must, somewhere, be a simpler, more violent world.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Waiting
  • Blow