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

• 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
  • Age
  • Present
  • Scenes

• 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

• 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
  • Space
  • Said
  • Steps

• 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

• When we turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, we play a game of pretend, like the child who covers her eyes and thinks you can't see her. And yet, there she remains. Closing our eyes doesn't make violence disappear; it only closes our minds and hearts and enables the violence to continue.

  

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
  • Eyes
  • Violence
  • Minds

• I'm getting fed up of living away from home so much. They look after you very well but it doesn't matter how well you're looked after, how nice the hotel is, if you're away from home constantly, the bloody dog savages you, thinks you're a stranger, the kid cries and the wife's stuck to your face!

  

  David Jason
  • Home
  • Dog
  • Cry

• I'm more worried about you," she said. "You and trouble..." "yeah." She heard the smile in his voice. "We're like that.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Voice
  • Smile

• The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Church
  • Jesus
  • Enemies

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

  

  David Bowie
  • Stuck
  • Overwhelming
  • Closing