David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

David Bowie

• Wish
• Boys
• Selling
• Manson

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• In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • You
  • Wish
  • Animals

• If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • You
  • Wish
  • Forget

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• We don't have a jewellery background, so we just come up with these things that we wanna wear, that we wish were out there, you know?

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Write

• I keep my scrapbooks in the car. When I come to a stoplight, I start looking through my past. Sometimes I wish the red lights were longer.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Past
  • Wish
  • Car

• Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we'd never been born.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Wish
  • Never
  • Born

• Being in the beauty industry has taught me that most of us are never satisfied with how we look. We all wish we had better hair, could lose that last 10 pounds, or look like someone else. I always see the beauty in the clients that have sat in my chair, and I've tried to help them see it, too, and feel good about themselves.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Good
  • Help
  • Me

• Peoples everywhere wish and long for peace and freedom in their simplest and clearest connotations: an end to armed conflict and to the suppression of the inalienable rights of man.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• May I join you in the doghouse, Rover?I wish to retire till the party's over.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • May
  • Wish
  • Party

• The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be- homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Mother
  • Wish

• When I come to my own beliefs, I find myself quite unable to discern any purpose in the universe, and still more unable to wish to discern one.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Wish
  • Universe
  • Purpose

• I wish I wasn't … There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Good
  • Wish

• I want to be able to speak every language. If I could have any talent and I get to choose it, and be naturally gifted and speak every language. It's not going to happen, but it sure would be nice. It's a good wish.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Wish

• The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I wish I could wear clothes straight off the runway.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Wish

• I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Good
  • Wish
  • Hero

• The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.

  

  Chris Abani
  • God
  • Together
  • Community

• No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • People
  • Wish
  • No Matter What

• We can't discount how scary and shaken not just the Turkish government is, but Turkish society is. Imagine if you had some rump group of military officials here in the United States who started flying off with F-16s or other artillery and were taking shots at government buildings, and people were killed and injured. People would be scared and rightfully so.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Society
  • Military

• A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Culture
  • Poor

• Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.

  

  Blaise Pascal

• When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Matter
  • Shooting
  • Cynical

• Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

  

  David Bowie
  • Wish
  • Boys
  • Selling