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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• Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Trust

• 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

• A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • God
  • Children
  • Help

• 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

• My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Relationship
  • Body
  • Boss

• 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

• My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady...

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Humble

• 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

• The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.

  

  David F. Houston
  • Past
  • Food
  • Value

• 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

• The people of Alabama are fed up. They are tired of politicians who lie to them, and they are sick of elected officials who've been in Washington so long they've forgotten why they ran in the first place.

  

  Luther Strange
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• 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

• Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.

  

  Chris Rock
  • People
  • Guy
  • Funny

• The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• I'm always on the market for a new friend, period. As your success continues to grow, you start to see who your real friends are. But I'm always looking for wonderful people to have in my life that have no agenda and aren't fake friends.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • World
  • Family
  • Words

• Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • People
  • Live
  • Children

• 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