Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

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• Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Life
  • Work
  • Humanity

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Think
  • Father
  • Son

• Acting was something I had to do.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Acting
  • Something
  • Had

• No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • May
  • Reality
  • Fall

• A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Life
  • May
  • Soul

• My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Job
  • Best
  • Author

• My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Game
  • Favorite
  • Pyramid

• I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Band
  • Rest
  • Year

• Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • People
  • Way
  • Nothing

• I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • You
  • Will
  • Saying

• I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Go

• I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

  

  Taki Theodoracopulos
  • Political
  • Language
  • Speak

• I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Play
  • Never
  • Broadway

• I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Real
  • She
  • Think

• Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Comfort

• There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Friends
  • Forever
  • Texas

• One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows.

  

  Mark Gatiss
  • Eyes
  • Ugly

• In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Action
  • Woman

• Each country is different. Keep an open mind, and you will able to find where the niche entry level lies - the areas where there are gaps. You have to keep an ear to the ground, and you can find a business opportunity.

  

  Binod Chaudhary
  • Different
  • Country
  • Mind

• Every band I've come across has read more than I have.

  

  Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons
  • Band

• I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Judging