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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  

  David Miliband
  • Time
  • School
  • Health

• Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
  • Words
  • Wise
  • Chinese

• 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.

  

  David Carson
  • People
  • Good
  • Singing

• For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.

  

  Mary Lou Retton

• Traditionally, we think that people with ideas are innovators - that Silicon Valley is the world of ideas. But within the hedge-fund world, they believe that they are men of ideas - that the trade is unto itself one of ideas.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I'm looking for a living wage and to continue my work. The frustration comes from when I can't do the things that matter most to me. It's when someone comes and says, 'I will finance your movie if you cast so and so.'

  

  Debra Granik
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Frustration

• Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Heart
  • Poverty
  • Candle

• When determining appropriate levels of compensation, management must determine if the employee turnover rate is too low, too high, or just right. If turnover rate is high enough to adversely impact the entity's performance, then employee compensation is probably too low.

  

  Jason Chaffetz
  • High
  • Management

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

  

  David Bowie