Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Henry Hwang

I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

David Horowitz

Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

David Hilbert

I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.

David Icke

I hope I can pass on a few thoughts and ideas to the Sci-Fi channel to encourage people to see that they are living in a conditioned illusion and we can change it any time we want. We can be people and not sheeple.

David Icke

If you have a pre-conceived idea of the world, you edit information. When it leads you down a certain road, you don't challenge your own beliefs.

David Hume

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

David Hume

Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.

David Hume

When I am convinced of any principle, it is only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence.

David Hume

A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.

David Duchovny

Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

Arthur Rimbaud

Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don't know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.

Deb Caletti

Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.

Deb Caletti

When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.

Diana Gabaldon

Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences.

Dennis Miller

Everyone wants answers and wants to know what the timeline is. Unfortunately, it's a complex situation, and we don't have the final answers yet.

Alan Dershowitz

The best answer to bad speech is good speech

Al Gore

The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels... If we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth, clean secure energy and maybe we prevent the greatest disaster so far in human history, saving millions of lives while improving billions more. If we fail, basically it's business as usual while things slowly get worse all around us.

David Rehr

When their middles are 6-4 or 6-2, it makes it difficult. We played hard and played well, they just had more answers than we did. We played up to our ability, so I'm just happy we actually gave our heart into this one.

August Wilson

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

Adrian Moss

We always get better in practice because we have four strong, physical guys. It's got to be real hard to play against.

Diablo Cody

For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.

Al Capone

Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

Clint Hurdle

We had been looking for that big hit, big swing for quite some time. I was looking for that at-bat since the fourth inning.

Ted Carmichael

We had a very good fourth quarter for employment.

Tina Brown

Franklin D. Roosevelt was fortunate: He didn't take office until nearly four years after the Wall Street crash, by which time the Republicans' responsibility for the Depression was taken for granted.

Clayton Jolley

We're sending four people. That's a lot for our organization.

Perry Florio

We're just giving teams goals. You can't win giving three or four goals away.