David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party.

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• I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Time
  • Great
  • Year

• Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Trying
  • True
  • Hand

• Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Women
  • True
  • Dream

• Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Generation
  • Own

• I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Bad
  • Myself

• Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Character
  • You
  • Acting

• Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Everything

• Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • Progress
  • End

• Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• It's great living with your best friends.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Best

• At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • English
  • First
  • Poison

• Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Find
  • Prince
  • Him

• I do think it's possible to change for the better.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Think
  • Change
  • Better

• Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

  

  Larry Page
  • Always
  • Sense
  • Where

• That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Him

• I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Never
  • More
  • Writer

• Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Done
  • Police
  • Letters

• I'm not gonna sugarcoat it: It sucks to lose sometimes.

  

  Alex Morgan

• Every time I go on stage, it's like a first date. I put on my best clothes, shave, and get as handsome as I can. Then I say the cutest things I know to say, and I become the very best Bill Medley I can be because I want to win my date over. My audience is the date that I want to impress every time.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Time

• You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Up
  • Children
  • Reading

• When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

  

  Alan King
  • Time
  • Father

• We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • Party
  • Church
  • Mad

• The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party.

  

  David Bowie
  • Party
  • Sun
  • Machines