Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.

Leonardo da Vinci

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• Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Real
  • Desire

• I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
  • Broadway
  • Toy

• Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • School
  • Kids
  • You

• The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Myself

• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Right
  • Directors

• I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Think

• I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • Parents
  • Support

• Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Team
  • First
  • Well

• I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Success
  • Understanding

• We love Popsicle in our house. Nick could probably down a whole box in one sitting; he's obsessed with the sugar free box, and I'm just obsessed with the classic.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Free
  • Obsessed
  • Classic

• I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • College
  • Years
  • Gone

• The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• I love action movies.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Love
  • Action
  • Movies

• Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

  

  Maimonides
  • Understanding
  • Opinion
  • Religion

• Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Jesus
  • Religion
  • Him

• I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

  

  Kate Williams
  • History
  • Think
  • Want

• All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Men
  • Character
  • America

• Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Art
  • Mean
  • Wine

• No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Judge

• If everything in the environment is utterly predictable, you become bored. If it's utterly unpredictable, you become frustrated.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Environment
  • Bored

• Look, that homeless guy is sleeping on my face. New York really is where dreams come true.

  

  Rachel
  • True
  • Guy
  • Dream

• What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Men
  • Art