David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...

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• I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Think
  • Song

• I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Never
  • First
  • Be The First

• A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Book
  • Night
  • Stand

• My literary success meant nothing to me.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Success
  • Me
  • Nothing

• My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Home
  • Black
  • Light

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Women
  • Spirit
  • Adventure

• Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Time
  • Great

• They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • People
  • Time
  • Mother

• We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Travel
  • Daily
  • Charity

• I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'

  

  B. B. King
  • Children
  • Family
  • Hope

• Death by hanging...well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.

  

  Arthur Seyss-Inquart
  • Different
  • Death

• I chose my own path because that was the only way.

  

  Dulquer Salmaan
  • Path

• All men who give up themselves in obedience unto God, they are received in Christ's obedience, viz. in the fulfilling of the obedience, the Jew and the Christian, and so likewise the heathen who has neither the law nor Gospel.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• Do I sometimes wish I were thinner? God, in the old days, absolutely I did, but now I feel that to lose weight would be disloyal to myself.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • God
  • Wish

• In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.

  

  Kina Grannis
  • Important
  • Respect
  • Relationship

• Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

  

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
  • Up
  • Music

• Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?

  

  Neil Marshall
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I'm certainly proud of the transformation of Playboy from a magazine to a multimedia corporation.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Proud
  • Transformation

• A low budget is uncomfortable.

  

  Lukas Haas

• When the gun fires you must concentrate for every second on the way to that finish line. You should know exactly how long it will take you to and think about every step of the race you are about to run.

  

  Maurice Greene
  • Long
  • Gun

• The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.

  

  Thomas More
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Sammy was the only one that looked like me, so I naturally gravitated to him. Sammy made it cool to be black at a time when, let's just say it, it wasn't very cool to be black. His name was on the front of the building in lights, and he had to go in the back. But you never saw him sweat.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Time
  • Black
  • Cool

• I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...

  

  David Bowie
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