Leon Battista Alberti Quotes

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Leon Battista Alberti

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• The Southern borders of Bavaria are being protected by Hungary.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Being
  • Southern
  • Hungary

• When discs form around stars, there is interaction of angular momentum between disc, planets and parent star, and this interaction affects the rotation of the parent star, and that will affect the lithium abundance.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Star
  • Parent
  • Stars

• We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Think
  • Dream

• Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Me
  • Start

• My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Music
  • Home
  • Man

• See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• I love hot yoga. I go to a sculpt class with weights. That's really good for the core and it's obviously super hot. I love cardio bar. I'm not a big gym fan, so I like to go to classes.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Good
  • Like
  • Classes

• Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Face
  • Institutions
  • Fraud

• I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • World
  • Hero
  • Loved

• When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Love
  • Freedom

• I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

  

  E. B. White
  • Thought
  • Cat
  • First Amendment

• My girlfriend tells me if I'm doing a movie I'm a roller coaster of emotions all the time, but on 'Boardwalk,' because I've done it for so long and I'm so in tune with the character, she says I'm pretty happy most of the time.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • She
  • Going
  • Million

• It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Song
  • Artist

• 'Orientalism' has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of view and always see things from different perspective.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Different
  • Knowledge
  • Question

• In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • History
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Millions of Indians are brimming with energy.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Energy
  • Millions
  • Indians

• 'We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.

  

  Banksy
  • World
  • Shopping

• Poets have imagined no utterance of fiends or hobgoblins so fearfully appropriate as a laugh. And even the obtuse lime-burner felt his nerves shaken, as this strange man looked inward at his own heart, and burst into laughter that rolled away into the night, and was indistinctly reverberated among the hills.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Laughter

• What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.

  

  Angela Ruggiero
  • Life

• I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

  

  Vir Das
  • History
  • Reading
  • Wikipedia

• Before information age, living standards basically were flat. Since then, they've been growing 2 percent a year were about 30 times richer. So technology, machines is really, you know, arguably the most important thing that's happened to humanity in terms of our living standards. You could look to the introduction of digital computers in the 1950s.

  

  Erik Brynjolfsson
  • Important
  • Humanity
  • Introduction

• A man can do all things if he but wills them.

  

  Leon Battista Alberti