David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much.

David Bowie

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• Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Important
  • Opportunity
  • Me

• Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Love
  • Water
  • For Him

• I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Boy

• I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Important
  • Think
  • New Things

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.

  

  Talisa Soto
  • Challenge
  • Learn
  • Look

• I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • House
  • Stop

• The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

  

  Floyd Patterson
  • Future
  • Pride
  • Fight

• Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Sometimes

• I thank God for all the people whom God sent into my life, the people who gave their best so that I could learn to give my best.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Logic is in the eye of the logician.

  

  Logic
  • Logic

• It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • World
  • Justice
  • Charity

• You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Work
  • Art
  • Energy

• Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Literature

• In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.

  

  Emo Philips
  • School

• Being passed up by teams because of my size made me hungry. I've seen a lot of first-round guys who come in and never really do nothing because they may not appreciate the opportunity because everything has been given to them. I think guys who come from the bottom understand how hard it is, so they appreciate the opportunities more.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Up
  • May
  • Opportunity

• I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Happy
  • Relax

• I don't know if there will ever be a day that I'm not wearing heels. I'm a very big personality, and I don't like to look up at other people.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • People
  • Up
  • Personality

• I hadn't grown up with 'The Hobbit;' I hadn't grown up with 'Lord of The Rings,' anything like that.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Up

• I have never pretended to be a legal scholar, but when scores of lawyers are lining up to agree with the Supreme Court that the president has the power to make choices when it comes to whom to deport and whom to let stay, then I tend to agree with them.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Up
  • Power
  • Choices

• So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she prays constantly, and relaxes not her efforts in our behalf.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Great
  • Love
  • She

• Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Wife

• Thinking for yourself is still a radical act.

  

  Nancy Kline
  • Thinking
  • Yourself
  • Act

• For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Wife