Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids, and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.

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• As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Time
  • World
  • Growing

• The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Story

• I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Work
  • Care

• I spent most of my time as an actor in television, so directors in television - it's such a machine that's already in place that I don't think you notice the direction as much on the set.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Think
  • Direction

• As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Business
  • Job
  • Think

• As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Career
  • You

• College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • College
  • Back
  • Worth

• I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Brain
  • Cancer
  • Questions

• The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it's the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • People
  • Remember
  • Best

• Age considers; youth ventures.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Ventures

• I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Up
  • Acting
  • Grow

• According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Today
  • Support
  • Security

• It's really empowering to have curly hair.

  

  Cam
  • Hair
  • Empowering
  • Curly

• These fragments I have shored against my ruins Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe. Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih shantih

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Why
  • Mad

• Pleasant, the word that utters the Trinity; Also pleasant, extreme penance for sin. Pleasant, the summer of pleasantness; Communion with the Lord, in the day of judgment.

  

  Taliesin
  • Summer

• I was very much aware that we still had to get safely back down the mountain again and that was quite an important factor. I really felt the most excitement when we finally got to the bottom of the mountain again and it was all behind us.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Important
  • Mountain

• See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

  

  Eminem
  • Day
  • Poet
  • Modern

• 'We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world'

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • World
  • Live
  • Trying

• You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

  

  John Ruskin
  • True
  • Action
  • Passion

• In features, we're languid: we shoot one or two scenes over, like, three days. In TV, the pace is so different. You're shooting ten scenes a day, going way into the future or way back into the past. It's complete madness, and I'm just trying to keep up with this really electric pace.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• I feel that it's very important for young people to have a sense of history and do research and don't re-invent the wheel and don't think that you're the first martyr to discover social injustice but to take advantage of previous generations of activists and find out what they did and how they resolved things.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
  • Instrument
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Right Way

• All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids, and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci