David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.

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• I am a very reclusive, private person.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Person
  • Private
  • Reclusive

• I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Think
  • Me
  • Sometimes

• Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Important
  • Power
  • Never

• The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Time
  • Beauty
  • Looking

• My tactic is to make eyes at someone.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Eyes
  • Make
  • Someone

• The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • World
  • Me
  • Supportive

• Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

  

  Ovid
  • Make
  • Materials
  • Surpass

• In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Grandma and Mama showed me that you always have to give as much as you can, no matter what.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Me
  • Always
  • Matter

• We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Focus
  • Insignificant
  • Till

• The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean? And just where does my story begin? I must try and think...

  

  Agatha Christie
  • People
  • Beginning

• Who was it who said that a wise man speaks when he has something to say, but a fool speaks because he must?

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Wise
  • Fool

• Acting is a stressful environment to put yourself into, and stress triggers Tourette's, but I think it's partly an outlet because when I'm acting, I'm putting my mind, body, and soul into something, and that's one of the times during the day when I don't tic.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Environment

• And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Good

• I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Up

• Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

  

  Plutarch
  • Men
  • City
  • Moral

• I don't have a type. But one thing I can say from my dating experience is that a physical attraction will only take you so far. So you definitely have to have a strong intellectual connection as well.

  

  Jesse Metcalfe
  • Experience
  • Strong
  • Connection

• I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • People

• People never know what's going on while it's happening. You think, during the Renaissance, people called it 'The Renaissance'?

  

  Anne Meara
  • People

• A little mordida, here. A little mordida, there.

  

  Wolfman Jack
  • Little
  • Here
  • Mordida

• Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.

  

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