David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

[While] my life started taking on all the problems of addiction. So that took me off into an area where relationships were absolutely impossible to handle on any real level. . . . Even communicating with other people was impossible.

David Bowie

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• Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Looking
  • Price
  • Blindness

• I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Hope
  • Never
  • Animals

• People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Misconception

• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Believe
  • Same
  • Generation

• Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Love
  • Medicine

• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Stories

• I got to write most of everything I said.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Said
  • Everything
  • Got

• I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Silence
  • Lose
  • Solitude

• Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Happened

• A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Country
  • Man
  • WIld

• Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Country
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Life
  • Stop

• I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Think
  • Actor
  • Dealing

• Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Work
  • Why
  • Win

• Makeup can help you capture a moment.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Help
  • Moment
  • Makeup

• I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Country
  • Past
  • Problems

• A lot of things have changed since I made my debut in 2004. The way cricket is played has changed. The kind of players that are coming in the Indian team are drastically different than what we were used to. My role is quite the same. You only evolve with time, and that's what I am trying to do.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Time
  • Different
  • Trying

• I'm going to reach out to everybody, Democrat, Republican and independent. I'm going to work with all the people in the district, and whether they're an 'R' or a 'D' doesn't matter.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • People
  • Work
  • Independent

• GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Humility

• We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • Friends
  • Eye
  • Page

• Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Passion
  • Painting
  • Voice

• [While] my life started taking on all the problems of addiction. So that took me off into an area where relationships were absolutely impossible to handle on any real level. . . . Even communicating with other people was impossible.

  

  David Bowie
  • People
  • Real
  • Impossible