Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

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• Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Teacher
  • Down
  • Scared

• As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Job
  • Look
  • Said

• A man is what he thinks about all day long.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • Man
  • Day

• I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hate
  • Change
  • Win

• I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Me
  • Couple
  • Garden

• To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Fire

• I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Different
  • Space
  • Purpose

• Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Place
  • Starting

• McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Person
  • Senator
  • Wisconsin

• I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Home
  • Parents
  • Alone

• When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Good
  • God
  • Sexy

• As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Nature
  • Childhood
  • Transformation

• In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • World
  • Political
  • Democracy

• The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Mother
  • Night
  • Morning

• Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Blow

• The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • Will
  • Essence

• I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Sleep

• I hear from higher up that China seems to be succeeding on many fronts – engineering, commerce, hotels, agriculture - everything. In many ways, don’t we need to take them as a model example for us?

  

  Kim Jong-un
  • Up
  • Model
  • Engineering

• You can assume that the leaf you see let go of a branch and fall towards the ground has never been considered by any being but yourself. Catch it in your hand - or, even better, keep walking until one falls into your reach naturally - and it will have spent its whole time on the planet without ever touching the ground, only because of you.

  

  Eliot Schrefer
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Fall

• I see sometimes how guys may make a buffoon of themselves to sell a few more tickets. They create this image, and when it's all said and done, it's like everything falls out from under them. They have no stability. I never wanted to be one of those guys.

  

  Andre Ward
  • Done
  • May

• Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. You're on the outskirts of society.

  

  Frank Dillane
  • World
  • Society
  • Homeless

• The vital difference between dreamers and achievers boils down to some very basic, simple habits. People with clear, 'written-out' goals who consistently honor their defined priorities tend to get results faster than others, and enjoy a greater level of happiness and long-term success in all areas of life.

  

  Chalene Johnson
  • People
  • Simple
  • Goal

• Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci