Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

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• My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Believe
  • Values

• When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • History
  • Die
  • Prove

• If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Car

• I'm always forming bands.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Always
  • Bands
  • Forming

• People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Words
  • Feelings
  • Describe

• I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Home
  • Values
  • Warrior

• The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Good
  • Work
  • Children

• Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Bi-coastal

• The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Understanding
  • Communication
  • Security

• People are incredible creatures of habit.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Habit
  • Creatures

• How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Important
  • Solitude
  • Independence

• We need to come up with use cases for this technology that drive clear benefits for individuals and institutions - these are our customers. Too often we see bitcoin and blockchain technologies as solutions in search of a problem. We don't just need these systems to be technically better than the alternatives - we need them to be more user-friendly.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Technology
  • Problem

• Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mind
  • You
  • Imagination

• Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Think
  • Like
  • Genius

• The unspoken word never does harm.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Never
  • Word
  • Harm

• Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • People
  • She
  • Peace

• When I was younger, I always did movies that teenagers would watch, not adults. I did 'Crazy/Beautiful' or comedies like 'Bring It On.'

  

  Kirsten Dunst
  • Beautiful
  • Crazy

• All the signals that the Democratic Party is a party that tolerates snobbery and bigotry against, frankly, a lot of traditional Christians, a lot of white guys who work hard every day and who don't feel that they are on top of the world, those signals are clear and it's a turn off.

  

  Van Jones
  • World
  • Work
  • Party

• What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation. My parents said, "We have a place where we can just be ourselves and nobody says, 'Don't tell me your opinion, you damn Jew, go somewhere else.'" Then you go to this country and other Jews tell you to shut up. It's frustrating. I think that we have a bad government and that some people are fearful. They're going with the class bully. But I really truly believe - you read it in my stories - that deep inside, people have goodness.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Opinion

• The body which is nearest to the light casts the largest shadow, and why? If an object placed in front of a single light is very close to it you will see that it casts a very large shadow on the opposite wall, and the farther you remove the object from the light the smaller will the image of the shadow become.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Why
  • Light
  • Single

• A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Shadow