David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

Things have to hit for the moment. That's one of the reasons I'm into video; the image has to hit immediately. I adore video and the whole cutting up of it.

David Bowie

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• There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Kids
  • First
  • New

• First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • People
  • Real
  • Money

• I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Me
  • Finding
  • Not Knowing

• I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Day
  • Boy
  • Child

• I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Different
  • School
  • Way

• I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • People
  • Think
  • Said

• I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Up
  • Feeling

• I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recognized me and started tweeting... It was the first time in my life someone handed me ice cream for acting.

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Balance
  • Humility

• The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Good
  • Live
  • Earth

• I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Years

• I felt the need, in order to widen my field of observation and to refresh my vision in front of new sights, to take myself away for a while from the area where I was living, and to make some trips lasting several weeks in Normandy, Brittany and elsewhere..

  

  Claude Monet
  • Vision

• I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Great
  • Music
  • Art

• Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

  

  Jo Stafford

• When I was in college, I could only write on a WordPerfect program.

  

  Charles Bock
  • College

• There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip-hop and R&B then it is - more originality.

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
  • Women
  • Pretty

• For a nanosecond in the pre-Internet pre-digital age, I was a hot young actor, in the sense of popular, and then it passed.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Age
  • Popular

• My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

  

  Brion James
  • Movie
  • Night
  • Dad

• I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • War
  • Support
  • Islam

• In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way. As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of 'we have no other choice.' I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Desire
  • Choices
  • Rich

• In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Reason
  • Guidance
  • Proportion

• The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Man
  • Reason
  • Function

• The mass is the spiritual food that sustains me, without which I could not get through one single day or hour in my life; in the mass we have Jesus in the appearance of bread. While in the slums we see Christ and touch him in the broken bodies, in the abandoned children.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Children
  • Jesus
  • Spiritual

• Things have to hit for the moment. That's one of the reasons I'm into video; the image has to hit immediately. I adore video and the whole cutting up of it.

  

  David Bowie
  • Moments
  • Reason
  • Cutting