Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
Quotes to Explore
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The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.
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Mr. Clyde Ross at that time, like most African Americans around the country, was unable to secure a loan, due to policies around redlining and deciding, you know, who deserved the loans and who doesn’t. There was a broad, broad consensus that African Americans, for no other reason besides blanket racism, could not be responsible homeowners.
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The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.
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I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
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If I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time. If you're a conservative Republican, you've got to fight for your life. It's really an amazing thing.
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I think Hitchcock had a thing about hills: think of the house on the hill in 'Psycho.' Then, in 'Vertigo,' Scottie is forever traversing the city, going downhill all the time as he goes deeper and deeper into himself. It's as if Hitchcock is using San Francisco as a psychological map.
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I find most children quite inspiring.
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We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.
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Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.
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Often, you're not quite sure what people have seen you in, but the script lands in your inbox. That was the case with 'The Night Manager.'
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Certainly I have made comments on American society with the various pictures and have done about nine antiwar paintings. But I did them because I was incorporating my feelings into my work.
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I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Usually I'm very, very involved with choosing my character's wardrobe and knowing exactly how I want the character to look and this is the color palette and the textures and these are the kinds of shoes she'd wear.
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I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.
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We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
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I always appreciate when people save, and more importantly, share. As we speak, there are people in this world - mostly men - who have giant collections of recordings that no one will ever hear. And the value of that collection is almost defined by the fact that nobody else can hear it.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
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It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.
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The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
