David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

David Bowie

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• 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.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • American
  • Funny
  • English

• 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.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Help
  • Technique
  • Physical

• 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.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Day
  • Media

• I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Worry
  • Married
  • Terrorism

• I've had a few encounters: At a restaurant, this woman that was like, 'Oh my God, oh my God, can we take a picture with you? My son said not to, but I just had to. You my favorite 'Devils Girl!'

  

  Taylour Paige
  • God
  • Girl
  • Woman

• She can only believe I am serious in her own fashion of being serious: as an antic sort of seriousness, which is not seriousness at all but despair masquerading as seriousness.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Believe
  • She
  • Fashion

• No, Your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man be­hind a king when I find him.

  

  Andrew Carnegie
  • King

• I love Wisconsin. It's a great place.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great

• When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Alone
  • Chicago

• I know that I'm not my body, and I also know that you're not yours.

  

  Janine Shepherd

• I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Important
  • Writing

• I unloaded planes for UPS in Louisville, Kentucky. It only was bad because it was called 'Earn to Learn,' where you pay for your tuition for college, but you have to work graveyard shift - midnight to eight A.M. - and then go to school at nine or 10 A.M. I was a zombie after two semesters.

  

  Boyd Holbrook
  • Work
  • School
  • Bad

• 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.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Up
  • Past

• This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend time not only around the table eating with their parents, but in the kitchen.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.

  

  Alice Sebold
  • Good
  • Poetry
  • 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.

  

  Lesley Ann Warren
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• I love Italian food.

  

  Jaleel White
  • Food
  • Italian

• A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

  

  Mark Strand
  • Life
  • Art
  • Poetry

• All of my husbands have robbed me blind.

  

  Debbie Reynolds

• Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Best
  • Unexpected

• Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.

  

  Walter Pater
  • People
  • Age

• It feels so good to win, you want to do it again and again.

  

  Jimmy Walker
  • Good

• Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

  

  David Bowie