Famous Quotes & Sayings

Didi Conn

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.

Didi Conn

I love working in the theater.

Dick York

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

Charlie Rowe

'The Princess Bride' was a movie that I watched all the time.

David Bowie

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

David Bowie

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

David Bowie

I'm a thinker not a talker.

David Bowie

It's not the side effects of the cocaine. . . . I'm thinking that it must be love.

David Bowie

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

David Bowie

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

David Bowie

I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.

David Bowie

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

David Bowie

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

David Bowie

You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn't it popular?

David Bowie

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.

David Bowie

For here, I'm sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet earth is blue, and there is nothing I can do.

David Bowie

I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.

David Bowie

There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.

David Bowie

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming

Dave Morin

If I learned one thing working at Facebook: If users are trying to use your app in a certain way, get out of their way and let them.

Dave Reichert

It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.

Dave Navarro

As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.

Dave Navarro

I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.

Dave Navarro

I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's really uncomfortable.

Dave Navarro

It's impossible to compare two bands. It would be like comparing two lovers.

Dave Navarro

My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look at my skin as something of a living diary because all my tattoos represent a time in my life. And I never wish to shut the door on the past, so I carry it all with me.

Dave Pelzer

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

Dave Mustaine

Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.

Dave Ramsey

Great talent stands in line to join your team because the culture becomes the stuff of legend.

Dave Ramsey

Teaching kids about money is never just about money.

Dave Ramsey

It's never too late to turn things around. You are the only obstacle.

Dave Ramsey

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Dave Ramsey

We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.