David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.

David Bowie

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• I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Kind
  • Sucker

• I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Role
  • News
  • Evening

• Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • May
  • Food
  • Feel

• Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Work
  • May
  • Remember

• Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Believe
  • Color
  • Yourself

• I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Talk
  • Wear
  • Soon

• In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'

  

  Malcolm X
  • World
  • Men
  • Start

• I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.

  

  Halsey
  • Me
  • Running
  • City

• I'm trying everything. But voice work is the best thing you ever imagined. It's not about how you look, and you can go to work in your PJs.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Best

• Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • World
  • Painting
  • Decisions

• I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Life
  • Watch
  • Go

• After the gold was removed from my body I felt lighter, more free. They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Gold

• I have visited (Burma) and I know that there is only one instrument of government, and that is the army...If I were Aung San Suu Kyi, I think I'd rather be behind a fence and be a symbol than after two or three years, be found impotent.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Army
  • Fence

• I wish I had a family. In the future I´ll try to figure out how to dedicate more time to my personal life, and yes, maybe think about a family, kids, comes an age when the body asks for it.5

  

  Luis Miguel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.

  

  Lester Cole
  • Beautiful
  • Flower
  • Japanese

• In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Time

• I am learning the grammar of acting on the sets. And I am happy that way.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Happy
  • Learning

• A man who doesn’t detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Heart
  • May
  • Pain

• I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Money
  • Love
  • Single

• Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it..." She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Path
  • Mad
  • Tears

• Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.

  

  David Bowie
  • Pain
  • Bully
  • Chilly