Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Leonardo da Vinci

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• I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Home
  • Together
  • Know

• My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Hair
  • Walking

• I believe in eating what I like and sweating it out in the gym.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Believe
  • Gym
  • I Believe

• I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

  

  B. B. King
  • Think
  • U.S.
  • Anybody

• I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Start

• In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Work
  • American
  • Military

• Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Friends
  • Place
  • Come

• Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There's cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There's an incredible amount.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Experience
  • Black

• You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Home
  • Me
  • Government

• Kumar Mangalam Birla is one of the most respected business persons.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Business
  • Most
  • Respected

• Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Spiritual
  • Greatest

• If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Song
  • Rock
  • Now

• If she chuses to set free one or two of my slaves she is to have full power to do so.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • She
  • Power
  • Free

• ...we tell Saudi Arabia that they should stand with the Yemeni people. And anyone who doesn’t stand with our people, they are the losers. We know what it means to be free, and we will achieve it. And the interests of countries, it’s with the people and not with the regimes, because these regimes will be gone.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Free

• Lets you and I try to live on food stamps in New Jersey (high cost of living) and feed a family for a week or month. U game?

  

  Cory Booker
  • Live
  • Family
  • High

• Clichés are the armature of the Absolute. (Source: Alfred Jarry, Selected Works, edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor. Cape, London, 1965).

  

  Alfred Jarry

• I think we're always going to be based in New York. So I would say 50 percent New York and the other 50 percent around the world.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • World

• I inhaled Dickens as a kid, and I've always been fascinated by the Victorians. So many ridiculous objects they had! They created things like mustache cups, so you wouldn't wet your mustache when you were drinking tea. And eyebrow combs. What's happened to all the eyebrow combs? Marvelous things.

  

  Edward Carey
  • Drinking
  • Tea

• Sometimes when you're writing a song, it's work, and you really have to make sure you're kind of pounding out every little piece of it. And then sometimes you write a song, and you turn around and you go, 'How did we do that?'

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Song

• The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • God
  • Pain
  • Joy

• So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.

  

  Lee Ann Womack
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• I heard about the movie business before I even knew what it was. So I surround myself now with people who are like, 'Can we not talk about movies for an hour?'

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Business
  • Movie

• He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci