Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
All the rays which convey the images of objects through the air are straight lines. Hence, if the images of very large bodies have to pass through very small holes, and beyond these holes recover their large size, the lines must necessarily intersect.
Quotes to Explore
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I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
Vernon Wells
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
D. B. Sweeney
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
Taylor Caldwell
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
Taylor Sheridan
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
Natalie Jeremijenko
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Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.
Patrick deWitt
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
Walter Scott
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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
Walter de La Mare
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
Haley Bennett
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
Jackie Speier
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
Umberto Eco
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
Ralph Fiennes
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To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
X. J. Kennedy
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I think celebrities suck.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
Padma Lakshmi
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It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.
J. G. Ballard
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
Ice T
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One day to see that headline, not that someone won a basketball championship, but to see that a cure for cancer has been found, will be a great day for mankind.
Dick Vitale
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Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under to him.
Louis XIV
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Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
Marshall McLuhan
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I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.
Joan Baez
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All the rays which convey the images of objects through the air are straight lines. Hence, if the images of very large bodies have to pass through very small holes, and beyond these holes recover their large size, the lines must necessarily intersect.
Leonardo da Vinci