Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hyde Pierce

I always think extremism is basically a reaction out of fear. What we seem to be experiencing is polar extremism that keeps people from coming together.

People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

David Hilbert

Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

David Hilbert

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

David Hilbert

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

David Icke

Weak minds think alike.

David Icke

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

David Icke

Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?

David Icke

If I get a computer and I tune it to the Internet, it will pick up the Internet from the invisible realms that I can't see.

David Icke

Dogmatic religion has been used to fantastic effect over thousands of years to fuel and exploit emotions like fear and guilt, and the feeling of being 'unworthy'. This has encouraged people to hand over their right to think and feel to a Bible and a priest because they have not had the confidence or self-belief to realize that they have a right, and an infinite gift, to make their own decisions

David Icke

It's amazing how everything fits together in the world of the Illuminati if you are prepared to dig deep enough.

David Icke

The Hindu faith and the information for its sacred books, the Vedas, were taken to the Indian subcontinent by the Aryans from the Caucasus Mountains, one of the centers for extraterrestrials/inner terrestrials and their offspring.

David Icke

There are two things you need if you are to uncover and communicate what is really happening in the world. One is to free of any dogmatic belief system. The second is not to give a damn what people think and say about you, or, at least, not to let that influence your decisions.

David Icke

I am a channel for the Christ spirit. The title was given to me very recently by the Godhead.

David Icke

Humans are so Funny. So much moralising about words while at the same time thinking it perfectly "moral" to pepper-bomb cities full of people to protect them from violence." David Icke - Remember Who You Are

David Icke

The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.

David Icke

Interestingly, the British government announced a few weeks ago that they were going to introduce 500 educational targets for preschool children. And teachers complained that "when are the children going to have time to play?" Well, they're not supposed to play, because play is a right-brain, ad-lib, creative pursuit. The idiot politicians who are introducing it don't understand this, but the shadow-people from which it is generated certainly do. They want to stimulate the left brain as early as possible.

David Hockney

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

David Hockney

Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look

David Hockney

I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.

David Hockney

I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone, as big as a reasonably-sized sketchbook... Anyone who likes drawing and mark-making will like to explore new media.

David Hockney

I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?

David Hockney

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.

David Hockney

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

David Hockney

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

David Hockney

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.

David Hockney

Tragedy is a literary concept.

David Hockney

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

David Hockney

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

David Hockney

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

David Hockney

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

David Hockney

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

David Hockney

The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is to think that 'how' has been settled and fixed. When you realize this is not the case, you realize that 'how' often affects 'what' we see.