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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I stuck my head out the window and got arrested for mooning.
Jack Roy
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
Thus the closing scenes of this present age will be a reproduction of the days of Noah: the same intense worldliness, and at last positive inability to care for the things of God, which was displayed by the antediluvians, will also be characteristic of our world when Christ begins the judgments that will quickly culminate in the glory of His appearing.
G. H. Pember
The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.
William Law
[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.
William S. Burroughs
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
When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.
Layne Thomas Staley
Alice in Chains
I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.
Shirley Ann Manson
Angelfish
Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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
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
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
