Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

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• Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Job

• When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Relationship
  • Desire
  • Effort

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Important
  • Real
  • Me

• You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Long
  • High
  • Age

• Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Congress

• I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Job

• At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Shoes
  • Company
  • Brand

• I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Country
  • Respect
  • Responsibility

• Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Wealth
  • Oil
  • Ancient

• I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Trying
  • Hope

• The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Problem
  • Photography
  • Turn

• Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Way
  • Walking
  • Cognitive

• It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • You
  • Someone
  • Ready

• Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Want
  • Know
  • Always

• It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Faith
  • Doing
  • Leap

• My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Energy
  • Joy
  • Humanity

• I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Business

• I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Always
  • Painting
  • Wall

• I would have loved to have gone into diagnostic medicine.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Loved
  • Medicine
  • Diagnostic

• Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.

  

  M.I.A.
  • She
  • Truth
  • Freedom

• Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Truth
  • Fire
  • Driving