Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

The senses are of the earth; Reason, stands apart in contemplation.

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• In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
  • Society
  • Changes

• There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Good
  • You
  • Simple

• I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Think
  • Mistake
  • Learn

• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Story

• Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Up
  • Together
  • Emotions

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• I am someone who isn't always perfect.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Perfect

• Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Health
  • Government

• The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Fashion
  • Choices
  • Biggest

• I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Really
  • Champ
  • Wallace

• No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Control
  • Process
  • Aging

• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Forever

• Nation states that are used to imposing capital controls will face a quandary: ban cryptocurrencies and live in the technology dustbin; enable them, and this virus - this religion, this protocol - will enable the free flow of money and language, along with packets, around the globe.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Live
  • Money
  • Free

• Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Why
  • Character
  • Movie

• I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Hate
  • Should
  • Overweight

• All I can really remember doing was listening to the radio and listening to records when I was at school. I wasn't very academic, and I certainly wasn't a very good student.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Good
  • School
  • Remember

• The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Today
  • Question
  • Learned

• I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Character
  • Power
  • Actors

• Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.

  

  Jonathan Carroll
  • People
  • Earth
  • City

• The senses are of the earth; Reason, stands apart in contemplation.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Earth