David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of 'rightness'.

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• TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Done
  • Job

• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Never
  • Goal

• My cross earrings are a mini statement; I wear them every day! My whole dream is to be iconic, and the way you dress yourself is so important.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Important
  • Dream
  • Day

• This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Women
  • Cool
  • Now

• My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Black
  • Smart
  • Perspective

• When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Problem
  • Trade
  • Bank

• The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides.

  

  Artur Schnabel
  • Art

• Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Intuition

• On 'Scandal,' the majority of the cast, if not all of the cast, comes from theater, so it's a healthy environment. People come into work and actually go home to their families.

  

  Khandi Alexander
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing.

  

  Jason Jones
  • Attention

• Singing is actually my favourite thing to do in the world - so when you don't consider yourself as talented at anything academically, and there is one thing you're good at, I think it's best to follow what you're good at.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • World
  • Good
  • Singing

• You've got to talk to your kids as both a parent and a friend.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Kids
  • Friend

• Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.

  

  Kelly Wearstler
  • Environment

• I really feel that Hong Kong is my home, and Hong Kong is my identity as an actor.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Home
  • Identity

• There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic.

  

  Liz Vassey
  • Women
  • High

• We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat.

  

  Jim Cantalupo
  • Pretty
  • Food

• I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Up
  • Great
  • Done

• Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Eyes
  • Pain
  • Boy

• Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives we take into our own lives about what are the true narratives and what's not.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Children
  • True

• Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Children
  • Health
  • Consequences

• It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.

  

  Edmondo De Amicis
  • Dream
  • Sleep
  • Feelings

• I do believe in the myth of San Francisco and there is a force, a magical kind of thing there. That feeling of like, I've never been to another place like it. It doesn't even feel Californian. Even how it's laid out physically, it's very strange. Like, the weather patterns don't make sense. They do scientifically, but in a practical way it doesn't make any sense. And that weirdness, it really creates some weird thing in the air. But it is you know, on a practical level, it's very expensive, and it's a very business-oriented place, too, and there's a lot of that stuff going on.

  

  Ty Segall
  • Kind
  • Feelings
  • Strange

• It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of 'rightness'.

  

  David Bowie
  • Children
  • Fall
  • Feelings