David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

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• There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Police

• The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • High
  • Society
  • Man

• It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • Important
  • Strong

• If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Lose
  • Sight

• We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Take
  • Credit
  • Talents

• I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Different
  • Relationship
  • Professional

• Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Attention
  • Present
  • Immigration

• I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Bad
  • Night
  • Black

• I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Work
  • American

• Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Stories
  • Desires
  • Fears

• Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Country
  • Know

• Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Better
  • Roommates

• Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Man
  • Day
  • Race

• A writers' ring is where a group of four or five authors agree to promote each other's work on their own websites and via their social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I have to have coffee in the morning.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Morning
  • Coffee

• 'Do you promise you won't hurt me?' asked Arthur. 'You will be safe from all harm for the space of a quarter hour, as measured by this clock,' replied the Old One. 'You are mortal enough that I would not slay you like a wandering cockroach, or a Denizen of the House.' 'Thanks,' said Arthur. 'I think.'

  

  Garth Nix
  • House
  • Space
  • Hurt

• The Ramans do everything in threes.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke

• If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

  

  Kathrine Switzer
  • Nature
  • Losing
  • Marathon

• I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • World
  • Real
  • Job

• I am so looking forward to it. I made sure I had a strong foundation before I became pregnant and I think that's the most important thing. There were a lot of things that I wanted to do personally so that when the time came, I really knew who I was and could be the best mother.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road.

  

  Bob Marshall
  • World
  • Home
  • Personality

• The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

  

  David Bowie
  • World
  • Thinking