Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

There is no certainty in sciences where one of the mathematical sciences cannot be applied, or which are not in relation with these mathematics.

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• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Myself

• I've built employee perks programs before and it's impossible to manually build a program that makes everyone happy. I'd make a deal with one gym then hear about another gym an employee would prefer. As a small business owner, I didn't have the time or leverage to negotiate and manage dozens of vendor relationships.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Time
  • Business
  • Happy

• How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Child
  • Wood
  • Carpenter

• My literary success meant nothing to me.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Success
  • Me
  • Nothing

• People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • People
  • Political
  • More

• News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • News
  • Involvement
  • Backbone

• Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Happiness

• You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Want
  • Giving
  • Grow

• I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Respect
  • Gifted

• I don't need to impress children.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Children
  • Need
  • Impress

• Women want to drive and they are taking actual steps towards that.

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Women
  • Want
  • Drive

• I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Truth
  • Feeling
  • Theatre

• Millennials are a very interesting generation for a lot of reasons. They're absolutely adorable, but they have some significant challenges. Their lives and their careers are delayed by about 10 years, partly because of the recession, also because of technology and also because of the way that they approach things.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Interesting
  • Technology
  • Challenges

• The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Experience
  • Atheist

• The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Great
  • Done
  • Help

• I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • World
  • Work
  • Done

• Kierkegaard writes: If Christianity were so easy and cozy, why should God in his Scriptures have set Heaven and Earth in motion and threatened eternal punishments? - Question: But then in that case why is this Scriptures so unclear?

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • God
  • Why
  • Earth

• Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

  

  Delmore Schwartz
  • Writing

• I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?

  

  James Gandolfini
  • Interesting

• The main stuff I like is from the late '60s to the early '90s. That's the stuff I love. It's the James Cameron's and the Paul Verhoven stuff. I guess when I was younger, 'Star Wars' had an influence.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • Star

• It is kind of cliche to say you like a man to smell like a man, but I really do. My husband can go three or four days without taking a shower and the man never smells.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Man
  • Husband
  • Smell

• Life is like riding a bicycle, in order to keep your balance you must keep moving.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Balance

• There is no certainty in sciences where one of the mathematical sciences cannot be applied, or which are not in relation with these mathematics.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci