David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

David Bowie

• Thinking
• Kind
• Artist

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Between

• A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Play
  • Pain

• When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • World
  • Movie
  • You

• He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Little
  • Much
  • He

• As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Gold
  • Trade
  • Self-Sufficient

• The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Life
  • World
  • Outcome

• Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Job
  • Fighting

• Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Family
  • Art
  • Myself

• Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Think
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?

  

  Becki Newton
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Red

• One of the first auditions I had in New York was for a commercial where I had to go in and audition to be a snake charmer... It was either some bank commercial or something where they wanted a guy charming a snake... I remember they wanted to know if I actually knew how to snake charm.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • New York

• I know my heart, and have studied mankind; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature did wisely in breaking the mould with which she formed me, can only be determined after having read this work.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Work
  • Heart
  • She

• Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Remember
  • Hope
  • Struggle

• I haven't read more than two pages, but my mother is a George Martin super fan.

  

  Kristian Nairn
  • Mother

• The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.

  

  George Blagden
  • Deep

• Thompson is a typical American: wide feet, good jab; he'll try to have a fight.

  

  Liam Smith
  • Good
  • American

• The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

  

  Jay Chiat
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I wake up every morning thinking I need to be edgier.

  

  Allison Williams
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Morning

• I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Violence

• Nothing is a conscious choice as an actor at the begining stage. There's so little that's a conscious choice even now. The offers, as absolutely limited as they are even at this point in my career, I have to really think about. I have a family, and it's a job. There are times when you take work that you normally may not dig. If someone says, "I want to meet with you," and they're about a hundred miles away, just go. You never know what might come out of it, and if you can make it, make it to the meeting.

  

  Gregory Phillip Grunberg Band from TV
  • Thinking
  • Choices
  • Conscious

• I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Artist