David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
-
My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
-
People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
-
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-
I love Wisconsin. It's a great place.
-
I know that I'm not my body, and I also know that you're not yours.
-
I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.
-
They did ask me to do 'Dancing With The Stars;' I said I can do one show, but on that show you have to come up with a new number every week, and I told them that I think I'm a little past that stage.
-
I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.
-
I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.
-
I love Italian food.
-
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
-
One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.
-
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
-
Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.
-
For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.
-
In a general sense, I think it's bad to bring too much money into climbing, since it takes away a little from the beauty of the mountains. But at the same time, I can't blame the Nepali government - or the Indian, Pakistani or Chinese, depending on where you're climbing - from wanting to capitalize on foreign climbers.
-
I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.
-
It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.
-
I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.
-
I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.
-
I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.
-
That was important, that he had a knack for winning and a knack for developing, that he knew the road it took.
-
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
