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 Ulevitch

I think anything which promotes heterogeneity on the Internet promotes stability. Diversity in services, service providers, and separating the layers of the networking stack are all important.

David Walton

You can't be trying to be funny. As an adult actor, sometimes I'll muddle it up by over-thinking things.

David Walliams

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

David Walliams

I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.

David Walliams

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

David Walliams

It was very exciting to see Alan Sugar, so I think I've peaked with excitement for the evening, because I'm a massive Apprentice fan.

David Walliams

I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be able to wear whatever they like?

David Walliams

Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat I just feel really happy in the water.

David Remnick

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

David Hume

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

Bear Grylls

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

Audre Lorde

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.

Frederic Bastiat

Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.

Derek Jacobi

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

Alan Dundes

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

Al Gore

I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.

Jane Austen

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

C. S. Lewis

True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.