Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

I obey Thee Lord, first for the love I ought, in all reason to bear Thee; secondly for that Thou canst shorten or prolong the lives of men.

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• Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Long
  • Government
  • Minimum Wage

• I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Different
  • Words
  • Years

• Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Live
  • Caring

• Allowing adult children who live at home who are in between jobs to stay on their parents' health care, I think that's a lot of Republican support for that, with or without Obamacare.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Live
  • Children
  • Home

• Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Men
  • Women
  • Change

• Western man is schizophrenic.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Man
  • Western
  • Schizophrenic

• I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Like

• We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Future
  • Evolution
  • Depend

• I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Read
  • Just
  • Respond

• Most of my stuff hasn't gone viral. I have been successful on YouTube and I'm very proud of the stuff that I've done, but compared to the people who are actual internet stars and making a living off of it, my views are nothing.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Done
  • Proud

• Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Life
  • Literature
  • Search

• My mother never watched me train in Romania. She wasn't allowed, it just wasn't done back then. My training was paid for by the government. My parents were not at the Olympics with me, either. I never expected them to be.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Done
  • She
  • Mother

• I have matured a lot.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Lot
  • Matured

• I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Want
  • Path

• Men learn to call pain 'glory'; women learn to call the police.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Pain

• We started off with this fairly grand concept of, if you were to tackle it at a children's level, eliminating war. What would you do?

  

  Jim Henson
  • Children
  • War

• No matter how much talent you have in your mind and spirit, if your body is not able to function, you are not able to fulfill your destiny.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Destiny

• But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Women
  • She

• In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Business
  • You
  • Waiting

• I obey Thee Lord, first for the love I ought, in all reason to bear Thee; secondly for that Thou canst shorten or prolong the lives of men.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Men