Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hockney

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

David Hockney

Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

David Hume

A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.

David Hume

The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity

David Hume

Every court of criminal justice must have the power of correcting the greatest and dangerous of all abuses of the forms of law - that of the protracted imprisonment of the accused, untried, perhaps not intended ever to be tried, it may be, not informed of the nature of the charge against him, or the name of the accuser.

David Hume

Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an artificial invention to that purpose. The same may be said of allegiance, of the laws of nations, of modesty, and of good manners. All these are mere human contrivances for the interest of society.

David Hume

The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation.

David Douglas

The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated.

David Brinkley

Laughter is a unique medicine that places your problems in perspective, relaxes your tense muscles, reassures those around you, and helps you to enjoy life even when you don't have everything you want. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

David Brainerd

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

David Brin

In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what baloney. Markets - and the other great modernist cornucopian tools - are magnificent wealth generating machines, built ad-hoc, through trial and error, constantly fine-tuned and refined, tinkered, adjusted.

Benicio Del Toro

There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.

Ben Stiller

It's great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.

Beatrice Lillie

In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.

Beau Mirchoff

Just throw me in a time machine, hit random, and wherever I land would be great. Just being thrown into a different time really fascinates me.

Barry Diller

We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

Barry Commoner

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

Barney Frank

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

Audrey Tautou

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

August Wilson

Land [is] the only thing God ain't making no more of.

August Wilson

I don't go by what the law say. The law's liable to say anything. I go by if it's right or not. It don't matter what the law say. I take and look at it for myself.

Audrey Hepburn

I love people who make me laugh!

Audre Lorde

I have suckled the wolf's lip of anger and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter.

Astrid Lindgren

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

Atifete Jahjaga

Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.

Arthur Scargill

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

Arne Glimcher

I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.

Arne Duncan

To be clear, we [the Department of Education] want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.

Antonis Samaras

Today is a new day for the land.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Science is our last and greatest frontier.