David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.

David Bowie

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• Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Water
  • Growth
  • Key

• I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • War
  • Peace
  • Confidence

• We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Great
  • Value
  • Proposition

• Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Done
  • Road

• There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Way
  • Happiness
  • Achieve

• I am a gypsy. I havent' had a home for a long time. Call me a homeless person - I just throw everything in a bag and I'm good to go.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

  

  Orson Welles
  • You
  • Stage
  • Two

• Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Me
  • Pressure

• The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • War
  • Church
  • Period

• Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Money
  • Balance
  • Financial

• Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particularly in new companies with strong prospects in fields like health care and technology.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Strong
  • Health
  • Technology

• The FSB's invisible presence continued; the agency became an intangible part of my Moscow life - sometimes loudly, sometimes quietly, with someone in a back room clearly turning the volume of minor persecution up and down.

  

  Luke Harding
  • Life
  • Up

• I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People

• If I go on to the pitch, do things well and the fans love me and my team-mates, too, we take on that energy which can change a game.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Game
  • Energy
  • Team

• I just want to play music with a band, live.

  

  Jessica Mauboy
  • Music
  • Live
  • Band

• Back in Nebraska, I was known as the fat model - the girl who was pretty for a big girl. My body, like my confidence, has been picked apart, manipulated, and controlled by others who didn't necessarily understand it.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Confidence

• Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

  

  Kesha
  • Society

• We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.

  

  F. E. Smith
  • House
  • Earth
  • Authority

• Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Film

• I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.

  

  Daniel Hannan
  • Support
  • Party
  • Health

• When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.

  

  Keri Hilson The Clutch
  • Writing
  • Song

• For a lot of us, we feel nostalgic about something with distance, and then [when] we go back to that thing, you remember why we left in the first place.

  

  Michelle Gomez
  • Remember
  • Distance
  • Nostalgic

• David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.

  

  David Bowie
  • Song
  • Distance
  • Generosity