Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.
Quotes to Explore
-
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
-
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
-
When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
-
Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
-
What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
-
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
-
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
-
It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
-
I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
-
There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
-
My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
-
When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
-
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
-
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
-
I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
-
Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
-
Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
-
In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
-
In this country over the last five years pay has doubled, whereas output has slightly fallen. That is totally different from the position with many of our competitors. Pay in those countries has gone up hand in hand with productivity. Consequently, they have the jobs and we have a larger proportion of the unemployment.
-
A book is either autobiography or a novel.
-
I think my own look makes people think I'm tough, but when they get to know me I'm very different.
-
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
-
I'm a huge reader... I'm a big book nerd. I go through, like, two books a week.
-
Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.
