Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
-
I love proving people wrong.
-
What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
-
I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.
-
I got out of grad school in 2000. I was about 26 years old. I've always said that I was late to acting because I didn't really start doing it in a focused way until I was in my early 20s.
-
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
-
When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
-
I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
-
I want everyone to live to their full potential without having to fear someone will try to knock them down or discriminate against them.
-
I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.
-
I want a '57 Starfire Olds.
-
What do I bring to a film? I think, maybe, I know for a fact that I focus on connection of character; I focus on warmth and a heart, but I don't know if it's because I'm African American or because I'm crazy -who knows.
-
I want to inspire, and be inspired.
-
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
-
My work is entertainment, and I look at what entertains people, whether it's a selfie video or a music video.
-
Writing is a strange and solitary activity.
-
Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.
-
I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.
-
The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear--in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust--that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience.
-
Only through blind Instinct, in which the only possible guidance of the Imperative is awanting, does the Power in Intuition remain undetermined; where it is schematised as absolute it becomes infinite; and where it is presented in a determinate form, as a principle, it becomes at least manifold. By the above-mentioned act of Intelligising, the Power liberates itself from Instinct, to direct itself towards Unity.
-
God knows, I haven't always been successful.
-
Actually, it seems like every time I'm about to pack it in, that's when I get a job.
-
Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.
-
To enjoy-to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.
