Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

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• Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Hate
  • Hear
  • Less Is More

• At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Growing

• I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Believe
  • Star
  • Spiritual

• When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Want
  • Church
  • Saturday

• Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • True
  • Age

• 'If we fail to see that there are powers that cause people to be bowed down in bondage, we are going to fight the wrong battle.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People

• If one basic axiom controls the cosmos, it must be this: In a situation of infinity every possible condition occurs, not once, but an infinite number of times.

  

  Jack Vance

• 'The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Life

• We hold that the one and only one true basis of society is the frank recognition of these rights of self-ownership; that is to say, of the rights of control and direction by the individual, as he himself chooses, over his own mind, his own body, and his own property, always provided, that he respects the same universal rights in others.

  

  Auberon Herbert
  • Mind
  • True
  • Society

• If you're self-employed, between jobs, or can't get insurance through work, you'll have access to affordable health insurance as good as Congressman Paul Ryan's.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Good
  • Work
  • Health

• If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.

  

  Max Levchin
  • Work

• One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.

  

  Ken Adam
  • Trying
  • Reality

• My dad, Bob Blum, used to dash across Grand Central's main terminal catwalk several times daily as a young CBS correspondent, running copy from newsroom to studio and back - because CBS' first broadcasts were from Grand Central Terminal. The pictures on people's television sets used to shake when the trains came in!

  

  Jenna Blum
  • People
  • Running
  • Dad

• At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting.

  

  Kato Kaelin
  • Time
  • Together
  • Fighting

• When you're in college, everything seems much more important than it really is.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Important
  • College

• In order for me to get through all the red tape and just allow people to just get at my talent, I've got to set the record straight. And you can't set half the record straight; when you tell it, you've got to tell it all.

  

  Corey Clark
  • People
  • Red

• I have followed the Church in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never allowed the Creed to be interfered with. It is fifteen hundred years since it was formulated, but every suggestion for its amendment, every logical criticism, or attack on it, has been rejected.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Character
  • Church
  • Criticism

• Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Fear
  • Understanding
  • Courage

• Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • May
  • High
  • Sea

• I hate to see a guy who insults a girl or is bad with her. Immediately I think she would be better if she was with me.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Bad

• Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci