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 Brinkley

In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own and somehow to be inadequate.

August Strindberg

The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.

Deepa Mehta

When I was exposed to the history and the cultural background of why women whose husbands die, why they have to become ascetic or live a life that is completely deprived of emotional or social or cultural sustenance, I was really shocked.

Diana Krall

You know, we recently played a benefit with my husband, Elvis Costello, and Sir Elton John, who is a mutual friend of ours. Playing with Elvis and Elton and accompanying them with my band was a pretty euphoric experience.

Dennis Miller

Teresa Lewis, the only woman on death row in Virginia, says she doesn't deserve the death penalty because she only hired the killers of her husband and stepson, she didn't actually pull the trigger herself. You know, she has a point. I think we should let her be able to hire the person who executes her, and not do yourself in! How's that, doll? Yeah! Get it over with quick, maybe Charlize Theron will sign up to play you.

Alexandre Dumas

His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!

Alexandra Paul

I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel.

Jane Austen

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Jami Gertz

They see a work ethic in both of us. But, they also see that my husband is more in control of his future, and I am more reliant on other sources for my career.

Charles R. Swindoll

Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.

Shashi Tharoor

A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water.

Robert Frost

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

Mike Gillespie

This was as hot as it's ever been. We made big shots when we had to.

Bruce Campbell

Genres pop up and get hot and then they die down.

Ivan Feinseth

Mills is in a very hot sector, but they have a negative return on capital.

Maria Sharapova

Mentally it was pretty tough, when you know you've got a very patient opponent and you know that it's really hot out there.

Tim Laatsch

Should all the contingencies be met, the hotel would then be sold.

Curt Shaw

We knew what was on the line. The pressure was off after the loss to Hot Springs (Thursday).