David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

I think the first experience scared the hell out of me. Within months of my initial marriage [on Angela Bowie], I realized I had done a really naive and rather stupid thing. . . . I don't think either of us had any real resolve about being together. The result was it made me wary of relationships.

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• I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Think
  • Teach
  • Patience

• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parenting

• As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Good
  • American
  • Taken

• In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• The reason Wilde did his best work after turning homosexual is that women simply reinforced his own feminine sentimentality. … Heterosexuality inhibited his imagination because woman is physically and psychologically internal.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Women
  • Imagination

• 'I am of no faith,' said Aenea. 'If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Faith
  • Supernatural

• We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Music
  • Hope

• We learn only to ask more questions.

  

  Larry Niven

• I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.

  

  Philip Gibbs
  • Women
  • War
  • Fear

• I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

  

  Chris Marker

• This whole Oscar thing is so political. It's about how much a film grosses, and who's in it, and how well it has been promoted.

  

  Lisa Cholodenko
  • Political

• The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique.

  

  Patti Davis
  • People
  • Long
  • Unique

• It wasn't like I was specifically wanting to write songs about technology. It's just what I lived, what I was experiencing growing up.

  

  Khalid
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Technology

• I'm a redneck.

  

  Billy Butler

• I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.

  

  Kevin Mitnick

• I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in more social settings as opposed to being confined to the church.

  

  Kathryn Lasky
  • Church
  • Feminist

• I clerked for a judge, William Norris, on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals right after law school and then for Justice O'Connor the next year.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • School
  • Law
  • Justice

• We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

  

  Luciano De Crescenzo
  • Fly

• Seek out people who aren’t afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn’t recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely'.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies have the biggest carbon footprint in the world, it doesn't mean they're stupid.

  

  Jeff Goodell
  • World
  • Stupid

• We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Eye
  • Balance
  • Animal

• The scientific consensus is that climate change is real, urgent, and caused by humans. This science should be both supported and understood by anyone who hopes to lead NASA, one of our nation's top science agencies.

  

  Brian Schatz
  • Real
  • Science

• I think the first experience scared the hell out of me. Within months of my initial marriage [on Angela Bowie], I realized I had done a really naive and rather stupid thing. . . . I don't think either of us had any real resolve about being together. The result was it made me wary of relationships.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Together