Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hilbert

Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman professor at their university.

David Hilbert

I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not a bathhouse. Objecting to sex discrimination being the reason for rejection of Emmy Noether's application to join the faculty at the University of Gottingen.

David Hume

The consequence of a very free commerce between the sexes, and of their living much together, will often terminate in intrigues and gallantry.

David Duchovny

Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it's all faking.

David Duchovny

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

David Duchovny

TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes.

David Duchovny

Patrick Stewart was the first internet sex symbol without hair but pileggi always thought it was him.

David Duchovny

Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

David Brin

Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature

David Duchovny

If I were gay, you know. I think Woody Allen is one of a long list of men I might go gay for

David Duchovny

I got married a bit late, I agree. In any other period of history I'd have been dead at that age and they'd have assumed I was gay. Like Michelangelo, or Leonardo da Vinci. But I was a late developer. I didn't go through puberty until I was 35.

Bear Grylls

Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect.

Bear Grylls

Yes, the Boy Scouts of America should definitely allow gay adult leaders and I think it's really going to hold them back if they don't.

Baroness Orczy

It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay.

Barney Frank

There is an irony that the most active anti-gay [groups] are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.

Barney Frank

I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed, gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

Barney Frank

I wouldn't want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court.

Barney Frank

There were a lot of Romneys. There was the Romney who was ; going to be better on gay rights than Ted Kennedy; now there's the Romney who checks with Rick Santorum on that issue.

David Horowitz

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

David Hockney

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

David Hockney

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.

David Brooks

I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating or hanging out, it just facilitates it.

Denis Leary

I have a lot of conservative views on a lot of things.

Denis Leary

I wanted a more female point of view.

Deborah Harkness

I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.

Alan Dershowitz

I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.

Alain de Botton

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.