What is the quality you most like in a man?
The ability to return books.
David Bowie
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LANE DUNLOP I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.
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ADAM LAMBERT As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
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TARON EGERTON David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me.
LEONA LEWIS Some people are like an open grave:
You give it the thing you love most
And then get nothi...
ABU AL-ALA AL-MA'ARRI David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
RACHEL PERRY Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
RICK PITINO If David Bowie wants, I'll put him in my phone book.
MADS MIKKELSEN The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.
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ANDY SERKIS The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
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RUDOLPH DELSON As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so man...
RICK WAKEMAN You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.
MOBY More and more, there are things in my life that I find hard to say. Like, 'David Bowie and Lorde...
TILDA SWINTON The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
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-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
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GERALD HOWARTH My history of singing has always probably been closer to a David Bowie approach than, for example, a...
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CHARLOTTE SULLIVAN If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Hide them all, then. Keep her – them – safe. Please.'
And what will you give me in return, ...
J.K. ROWLING Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH One of my biggest influences of all time would be somebody like Tom Waits. David Bowie is another hu...
HOZIER Falling In Love Is Like Owning A Dog.
Throw things away and love will bring them back, TAYLOR MALI David!" Xander yelled, because he had to yell something. His eyes snapped back to the figure in the ...
ROBERT LIPARULO -What's so funny?"
"-Sorry," David said, reddening again. "You just taste so sweet."
"-Wha...
APRILYNNE PIKE That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you.
H.L. DAVIS What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT God is not interested in your ability. He is
interested in your availability. When you avail ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You have to go into rehab after doing a David Walliams book. David is such an important man; publish...
TONY ROSS Eight months after graduating from Ryerson, there I was in West Berlin working with Marlene Dietrich...
RORY MACLEAN 'You know what I thought the first time I saw you?'
'No.'
'Point of no retu...
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in...
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By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
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LORD CHESTERFIELD The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Your ability to know what is going on is quite limited, and most investors won't like that. It just ...
GEOFF BOBROFF Don't care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don't give up and use the chance
...
ENIGMA Sections in the bookstore
- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- B...
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A donkey laden with books is neither a...
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GERMANY KENT Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'.
David: Good thing I'm only mod...
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ERIN MORGENSTERN We will speak for the books."
...
"Like the Lorax?"
"The Lorax speaks for the trees,"...
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BAT FOR LASHES One month I'll be completely obsessed with Bob Dylan and the next Arcade Fire. I like early Elto...
TOM ODELL Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this...
MELODY BEATTIE A book about books is like a poem about poetry:
Books are knowledge, paid for, all.
...
WILL ADVISE It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how...
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DAVID BOWIE I'm responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.
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DAVID BOWIE I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then...
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DAVID BOWIE There's a terror in knowing what the world is about
DAVID BOWIE Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.
DAVID BOWIE I'm an instant star, just add water.
DAVID BOWIE Turn and face the strange changes.
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DAVID BOWIE Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to re...
DAVID BOWIE People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society...
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DAVID BOWIE The Internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic, nihilistic.
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DAVID BOWIE Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fair...
DAVID BOWIE Look up here, I'm in heaven!
I've got scars that can't be seen
I've got drama, can't be st...
DAVID BOWIE I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings...
DAVID BOWIE It's only forever, not long at all
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DAVID BOWIE I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much mor...
DAVID BOWIE Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn'...
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DAVID BOWIE I'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours b...
DAVID BOWIE I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.
DAVID BOWIE I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
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DAVID BOWIE I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight.
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DAVID BOWIE I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and sin...
DAVID BOWIE The name Zahra was to have been lman's own name at birth, but a senior member of the family chan...
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DAVID BOWIE I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the mone...
DAVID BOWIE I've always tended to write songs prolifically.
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DAVID BOWIE I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating character...
DAVID BOWIE You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of cove...
DAVID BOWIE Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I'd be very happy. It's not my favo...
DAVID BOWIE The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E...
DAVID BOWIE If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But...
DAVID BOWIE I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events tog...
DAVID BOWIE Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part ...
DAVID BOWIE I was never particularly fond of my voice.
DAVID BOWIE I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and rec...
DAVID BOWIE I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Zigg...
DAVID BOWIE I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a...
DAVID BOWIE I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time...
DAVID BOWIE But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
DAVID BOWIE I couldn't have written things like 'Low' and 'Heroes,' those particular albums,...
DAVID BOWIE It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.
DAVID BOWIE I'm not very articulate.
DAVID BOWIE When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.
DAVID BOWIE I'll tell you who I absolutely adore: Ian McEwan.
DAVID BOWIE I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to sa...
DAVID BOWIE I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup...
DAVID BOWIE I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good a...
DAVID BOWIE I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn...
DAVID BOWIE I'm a born librarian with a sex drive
DAVID BOWIE Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.
- Golden Years
DAVID BOWIE Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...
DAVID BOWIE Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.
DAVID BOWIE There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.
- Queen Bitch
DAVID BOWIE When I looked in her eyes they were blue but nobody home.
- Scarey Monsters (and Super...
DAVID BOWIE Some make you sing and some make you scream,
One makes you wish that you'd never been seen.
DAVID BOWIE And I don't care what anybody says; I like doing it, and it's what I shall continue to do
DAVID BOWIE Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging...
DAVID BOWIE We can be "heroes" just for one day.
- "Heroes"
DAVID BOWIE No more free steps to heaven.
- It's No Game
DAVID BOWIE We can be heroes just for one day
DAVID BOWIE HEROES I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux...
ANGELA BOWIE Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - becau...
BOWIE KUHN During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outside...
ANGELA BOWIE We think that it is clearly being directed against our company. If it's truly a worthy cause, then i...
CATHERINE BOWIE We felt there was so much misinformation being put out about the company that it was time to stand u...
CATHERINE BOWIE We really haven't decided everything we are going to do. None of it will be occurring at ratepayer e...
CATHERINE BOWIE To add the cost of (a new water) project to the cost of buying out the company would not save ratepa...
CATHERINE BOWIE We're concerned an unfair standard is being applied as to cleanup.
CATHERINE BOWIE Being a grandparent doesn't interest me whatsoever. Babies are all right if they're your own...
ANGELA BOWIE The trumpet is forceful.
LESTER BOWIE Even though she didn't qualify, she was still so happy with her ride and will go to the championship...
ANNE BOWIE I go to support her at every show and as a trainer, we can coach all the way up until the riders act...
ANNE BOWIE She is 100-percent committed to her sport. She is as devoted as any instructor of any sport would wa...
ANNE BOWIE I don't know how much love David felt - I suspect very little. My main appeal to him was as a nu...
ANGELA BOWIE