Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.Leonardo da Vinci
Quotes to Explore
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
Tammy Baldwin -
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
Patricia Meyer Spacks -
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
Vidal Sassoon -
My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
Barbara Corcoran -
Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
Saint Basil -
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
Aasif Mandvi -
Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
Tao Okamoto -
Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
Rachele Brooke Smith -
That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
Wanda Sykes -
It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
Jack Nicklaus -
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
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I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.
Fiona Apple -
People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
Olivia Wilde -
Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
Sally Mann -
If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
Nancy A. Collins -
The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
Waverley Lewis Root -
I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
Cara Delevingne
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I'm just getting people warmed up a little bit at a time, a little bit at a time, so I can fully come with, like, a 'Fix You' - type record, or 'One' by U2.
Clinton Sparks -
I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.
Francesca Annis -
The Cubs gave me a chance to play. They signed me as a free agent and brought me to the Major Leagues. The first day I walked into Wrigley Field was one of the best days of my life. And I owe them an awful lot.
Bruce Sutter -
At the state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Hu opened a fortune cookie that said, 'You will lend us another trillion dollars.'
Conan O'Brien -
The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
Leonardo da Vinci