Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

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• Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Conflict
  • Dollar

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Style
  • Learn
  • Try

• I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Culture
  • Stop

• Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • May
  • Animal

• That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• I feel what a spouse can do for you, no child or parent can. Just that if you get the right connect with your spouse, you get it going right.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Feel
  • Child
  • Parent

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Change
  • Me

• I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Character

• Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Important
  • Car
  • Design

• I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • First
  • Four
  • My Own

• We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Depend

• If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Life
  • Song
  • My Life

• The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Faith
  • Day
  • Responsibility

• I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Family
  • American
  • Dream

• Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• I want to become more famous, even more famous.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Want
  • Famous
  • More

• Olympian bards who sung Divine Ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Risk is inherent in the market, ... We all understand that and we thrive on that; what we don't tolerate is fraud.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Risk
  • Market
  • Tolerate

• To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

  

  Origen
  • Life
  • End
  • Him

• When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

  

  Sally Field
  • Good
  • May
  • Bad

• Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Moon

• A luminous body when obscured by a dense atmosphere will appear smaller; as may be seen by the moon or sun veiled by fogs.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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