David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.

David Bowie

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• So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

  

  Sally Ride
  • You
  • Space
  • First

• Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Night

• When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Space

• I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • School
  • Together
  • Boy

• Los Angeles County is one of the most park-poor urban areas in the nation, and the San Gabriel Valley - stretching from Pasadena to Pomona - is especially starved for open space.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Space
  • Most
  • Open

• I've made a lifetime commitment to the union movement and to public education.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Education
  • Commitment

• I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Education
  • Health
  • Space

• Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Heart
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity

• My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Space
  • Beauty

• We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Small
  • Space
  • Warm

• The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Music
  • Together
  • Soul

• One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Together
  • Simple
  • Couple

• I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Up
  • Together
  • High

• The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Age
  • Words
  • Space

• I've not gotten so much stuff because I improvise in an audition, but I always feel like, if that's the case, the reason is because it wouldn't have worked out anyway with us working together.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Together
  • Working Together

• Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Management

• Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • May
  • Together

• I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

  

  Dean Cain
  • Up
  • Money
  • Fun

• People were saying, 'He's worth £32m? He tried a back-heel and fell over!' Even I laughed. In my head, I said, 'OK, you've seen the bad side, now come see the good side'.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Now Dave Eggers, if you lived in San Francisco, is not an easy person to be done with. Everyone - and by everyone, I mean every white person with a college education and an interest in books - wants a piece of him. It's not just his amazingly powerful prose; it's also his charitable works.

  

  James Bernard Frost
  • Done
  • Education
  • College

• It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Food

• I thrive on competition.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Competition
  • Thrive

• Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.

  

  David Bowie
  • Together
  • Space
  • Commitment