David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.

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• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Father
  • Religious
  • Born

• For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Law
  • New York
  • Forward

• The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Life
  • Days
  • Once

• What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching of outward conformity. You don't get in trouble for not having the character of Christ, but you do if you don't obey the laws.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Character
  • Christian

• Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Devil
  • Heat
  • Complain

• 'Humanity has evolved-as far as it has evolved,' continued the old priest, 'with no thanks to its predecessors or itself. Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.''Empathy,' Aenea said softly.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Long
  • Humanity
  • Thanks

• Today, no great Western nation has a birthrate that will prevent the extinction of its native-born. By century's end, other peoples and other cultures will have largely repopulated the Old Continent. European Man seems destined to end like the 10 lost tribes of Israel-overrun, assimilated and disappeared.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
  • Today
  • Lost

• Gloomy grammarians in golden gowns, Meekly you keep the mortal rendezvous, Eliciting the still sustaining pomps Of speech which are like music so profound They seem an exaltation without sound.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Music
  • Profound

• The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

  

  Larry Niven

• Laughter kills lonesome. It's one of the great things in our lives.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Great
  • Laughter

• The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Life
  • Church

• In Morocco, a Muslim country, I got to hear the call to prayer five times a day. At first it felt kind of scary, kind of dangerous, because of the propaganda towards anything Muslim in the U.S. subconsciously coming out in me. By the end of the trip, it was so beautiful, and then not hearing it when I got back to L.A. really threw me off.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Prayer

• Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people.

  

  David Hackworth
  • People
  • American
  • Everyday

• Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.

  

  Alexis Arguello
  • People
  • Women
  • Money

• Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

  

  Dylan McDermott
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• I tore my right shoulder to pieces - three external tears, a labrum tear, and a detachment of the bicep tendon.

  

  Alex O'Loughlin
  • Tears

• I personally have learned a great deal during this period. Often, pain accompanies learning so I cannot say I have enjoyed this experience, and neither has anyone else at the College Board.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • Experience
  • Enjoyed
  • College Board

• I see what grief does, how it strips you bare, shows you all the things you don't want to know. That loss doesn't end, that there isn't a moment where you are done, when you can neatly put it away and move on.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Grief
  • Loss
  • Move On

• Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • World
  • Mind
  • Language

• You know I need your love, you got that hold over me.As long as I got your love, you know that I'll never leave.When I wanted you to share my life, I had no doubt in my mind.And it's been you, woman, right down the line.

  

  Gerry Rafferty
  • Life
  • Long
  • Mind

• It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.

  

  David Bowie
  • Mind
  • Boring
  • Positively