David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.

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• I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Power
  • Laughter
  • Horror

• I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Progress

• But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Peace
  • Media
  • Bring

• There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Society
  • Wife

• I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Way
  • Look
  • Artificial

• Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Success
  • Beginning
  • Selling

• I have an Oscar on my mantel.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Oscar

• Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Game

• The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Family
  • Love
  • May

• The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Said
  • Constitution
  • Ultimate

• I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Work
  • You
  • Quiet

• There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Character
  • You
  • Decisions

• In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Action
  • Beginning
  • Marriage

• I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Fame

• Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Done

• Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests. … They've got a big target on there, ATF. Don't shoot at that, because they've got a vest on underneath that. Head shots, head shots.... Kill the sons of bitches.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Alcohol

• Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit … Life, liberty, and thought - three persons in one substance, eternal, never-ending, and unceasing.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Life

• We are always manifesting. Each thought we have creates an energy flow within and around our physical being. This energy attracts its likeness. So if you're thinking, 'I suck,' then your energy kinda, well, sucks - and you attract sucky experiences.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Thinking
  • Energy

• I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Future
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• My whole thing, my priority, is my family, my kids, and my wife. That's my future. I don't really care about what role is next.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Future

• You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • World
  • Job
  • Focus

• I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.

  

  David Bowie