Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.

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.

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 Ramsey

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Dave Ramsey

Thinking about starting a small business? Assume everything will cost twice as much and take twice as long as you think it will.

David Neeleman

I think because of all of the difficulties in Europe with terrorism and stuff, a lot of people ended up going to Portugal. They felt, I think, safer in Portugal.

David Neeleman

I think there's a big market in North America [with travelers] going to Lisbon and connecting over Lisbon.

David Neeleman

We are just interested in dealing with the people were paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.

David Neeleman

I think there's new optimism in Brazil. The Olympics went well. Our demand is good. Costs are down. We're back in the black. We're feeling really good about what's going on in Brazil.

David Nicholls

I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.

David Nicholls

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.

David Nicholls

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

David Nicholls

[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.

David Nicholls

And then she frowned, and shook her head, then put her arms around him once more, pressing her face into his shoulder, making a noise that sounded almost like rage. 'What's up?' he asked. 'Nothing. Oh, nothing. Just...' She looked up at him. 'I thought I'd finally got rid of you.' 'I don't think you can.' he said

David Nicholls

Sometimes I wish that I hadn't learned how to crochet," I say, and Alice laughs. Obviously she thinks I'm joking, which is maybe for the best.

David Nicholls

…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.

David Nicholls

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.

David Nicholls

I think you’re amazing,’ someone says to someone else, but it doesn’t matter who, because they’re all amazing really. People are amazing.

David Nicholls

In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.

David Ives

Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.

David Ives

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

Edward Witten

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.

Edward Zwick

I don't think it's a prize when actors and directors or writers and actors work together more than once. You have a trust and a shorthand and a lot of times you even reach the point, where in the process, you don't even have to talk.

Edward Zwick

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

Ai-jen Poo

I think this is a moment of a lot of possibilities, and openings. Occupy and the 99% movement are really going to break through, and we are going to create a new economy, an economy that we need that works for everyone. Where everyone works, everyone counts and everyone contributes.

Ai-jen Poo

I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture. It really moved the dial politically. That's what is needed in the women's movement - a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.

Ahmed Rashid

I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against the Taliban.