Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
When I did well, as a boy you used to put me in prison. Now if I do it being grown up, you will do worse to me.Leonardo da Vinci
Quotes to Explore
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
Rachel Platten -
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe -
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo -
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
Park Chan-wook -
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler -
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. Mencken
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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
Fannie Hurst -
But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
Waylon Jennings -
When all are wrong, everyone is right.
Ed Koch -
I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
Harold Ramis -
Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
Ted Rall -
I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
Dan Aykroyd
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
Kaskade -
I believe in aging gracefully.
Tatjana Patitz -
Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
Oscar Levant -
I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
Carlos Santana Santana -
Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
Ted Yoho
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
Ted Deutch -
I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside.
Jane Hirshfield -
A lot of Texans go up to New York and stay there forever. If there are any two places with more individual characters, I don't know them.
Jerry Jeff Walker -
You had to grow up sometime. The fellows who grew early, they were in jeopardy. They became the cops and the crooks, and the crooks became the gangsters. The crooks became the Al Capones.
Jack Kirby -
We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework, and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect that we're not in charge of, really, and that's magic. You are always on the lookout for where and how that magic is going to ignite.
Lorraine Toussaint -
When I did well, as a boy you used to put me in prison. Now if I do it being grown up, you will do worse to me.
Leonardo da Vinci