Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

Leonardo da Vinci

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• I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Think
  • Me
  • Know

• I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Think
  • Change
  • Humor

• So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Up
  • President
  • Here

• I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • America
  • Clever
  • Alcohol

• He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • House
  • Paradise

• Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Life
  • Live
  • Family

• I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Dad
  • Friend
  • Best

• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Sin
  • Paradise
  • Return

• I'll never forget the modelling shoot I did in the Bahamas on a pink sand beach at Harbour Island. It felt like I'd just landed in paradise; it was so beautiful.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Beautiful
  • Beach
  • Paradise

• It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Paradise

• It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Women
  • True
  • Want

• The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • May
  • Decision
  • Leaving

• What is there in 'Paradise Lost' to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lost
  • Paradise

• Pass in, pass in, the angels say, In to the upper doors; Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to Paradise By the stairway of surprise.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Paradise

• Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Freedom
  • Paradise

• Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when she found the gin bottles under the couch. I believe her exact words were, 'You're a disgusting, drunken mess.' And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Done

• Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

  

  Frank Langella
  • Horse
  • Sexy
  • Paradise

• Troubles stole my paradise was our love just blind? Look what you have done to me my love You can still win back my heart, love can find a way Got my love lying in your hands, oh Still I can't explain why you went away So, I ask again have you gonna stay I feel just the same, love might come again Emotion, emotion.

  

  Dieter Bohlen Modern Talking
  • Love
  • Emotion
  • Blind

• If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.

  

  Val McDermid
  • You
  • Goodbye
  • Prizes

• Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Work
  • Men
  • Character

• I want people to know where I come from. I think I have come really far from that, and I did it on my own. It's sort of the American dream to come from absolutely nothing and to succeed while still doing something that you love. Not compromising yourself in any way. I hope I'm making Jersey proud in that way.

  

  AJ Lee
  • People
  • American
  • Hope

• Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Paradise