Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hilbert

I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts point, straight line and plane, if one adds to these all the axioms of groups i-v as characteristics. If one is looking for other definitions of point, perhaps by means of paraphrase in terms of extensionless, etc., then, of course, I would most decidedly have to oppose such an enterprise. One is then looking for something that can never be found, for there is nothing there, and everything gets lost, becomes confused and vague, and degenerates into a game of hide and seek.

David Hockney

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

David Brooks

Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High school dropout issues. But because of the flow of events which involve the racial component, we've sometimes confused racial issues with other issues which are trans-racial.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I keep myself amused and others confused

Audre Lorde

The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation.

Arnold Bennett

You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments producing a confused agreeable mass of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.

Deb Caletti

Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.

Deb Caletti

I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end, still hoping for for it turn out different. Maybe I was confused about what you owed a book. What you owed people, for that matter, real or fictional.

Alain de Botton

Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.

David Riesman

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

David Hume

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him.

Barney Frank

Disruption never helps your cause. It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion.

Dee Dee Ramone

When I met Ronnie Spector, she walked in and said, 'You look like me.'

Deborah Eisenberg

Every moment is all the things that have happened before and all the things that are going to happen, and...the way all those things look at one point on their way along a line.

Dennis Hopper

When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!

Dennis Kucinich

Look, I've lost before. And there's always a tomorrow.

Alain Juppe

In politics, one is never finished. Look at me!

David Ricardo

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down....

David Hockney

The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.

David Duchovny

It's rare in movies or even in life where somebody owns up to their needs. I guess in a relationship it's the only way it has a chance to survive it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I found the best way is to use Chiropractors, not only after injury, but also before injury.

Beatrice Wood

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

Bear Grylls

Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.

Audre Lorde

I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?

Athol Fugard

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

Antonis Samaras

The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.