David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.

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• There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Time
  • Great
  • Financial

• Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Hope
  • Alone
  • Christianity

• Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Achieve

• I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Think
  • Cloud

• My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Road

• Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Life
  • Taken
  • Serious

• I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Work
  • Fear
  • Theatre

• Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining 'bleached' districts were more likely to elect white Republicans.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Black
  • White
  • Strategy

• I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Music
  • Long
  • Job

• I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Why
  • Always
  • Flower

• I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Way

• If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Important
  • Expectation

• Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 104–06

  

  Oswald Spengler

• It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Crazy
  • Doubt

• Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Knowledge
  • Reading

• I agree with my mother that having children removes a layer of skin that you never grow back.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Children
  • Mother

• The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

  

  Kevin Eubanks
  • People
  • Perception

• I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'

  

  James Gray
  • Night

• If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Real
  • High
  • Technology

• Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Quality
  • Positive

• A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

  

  Aristotle
  • Wife
  • Slave
  • Female

• All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • End
  • Roads
  • Gate

• Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.

  

  David Bowie
  • Quality
  • Rebel
  • Hot