David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

David Bowie

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• You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• If you don’t take control of your career, guess what? You’ll be stuck in the sunset watching the sunrise, I am thesunrise.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Career
  • Control
  • Careers

• Dont believe the hype. It tastes like someone scraped off the bottom of a birdcage and stuck it on a piece of toast.

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • Believe
  • Bottom
  • Stuck

• I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Music
  • Play

• The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Question
  • Silence
  • Professional

• Then I got this idea in my head that magazines were like a gallery and if you got your magazine page ripped out and someone stuck it on their refrigerator, then that was a museum – someone’s private museum.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Ideas
  • Stuck
  • Magazines

• I stuck my head out the window and got arrested for mooning.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Window
  • Stuck
  • Arrested

• I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Passion
  • Sleep
  • Idea

• The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.

  

  William Law
  • Soul
  • Christian
  • Religious

• [Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Thinking
  • Years
  • Stuck

• We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Philosophical
  • Conclusion
  • Stuck

• When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • Home
  • Stuck

• I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Sick
  • Records
  • Stuck

• Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Gay
  • Young
  • Sound

• In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Conversation
  • Stuck
  • Anxious

• I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Heart
  • Chance
  • Silence

• I got my heel stuck in a drain as I was crossing the street and cars were coming. It was really scary. A girl in heels in New York is a hard combination.

  

  Sasha Pieterse
  • Girl
  • Car
  • Scary

• I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?

  

  Scott Vincent James Baio
  • Mean
  • Car
  • Driving

• Maybe we're stuck with who we are.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Stuck

• I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

  

  Richard Nelson Bolles
  • Work
  • Firm
  • Overwhelming

• The biggest direct influence on my career is Ben Edlund, who gave me my first real professional break and, through his friendship and example, turned me into a writer and a more critical thinker in general.

  

  Christopher McCulloch
  • Real
  • Career
  • Professional

• The worse the man, the better the soldier.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Soldier
  • Worse

• When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

  

  David Bowie
  • Stuck
  • Overwhelming
  • Closing