Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
-
Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
-
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
-
Produce great men, the rest follows.
-
So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
-
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
-
I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
-
Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
-
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
-
Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
-
It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
-
During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
-
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
-
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
-
My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
-
With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.
-
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
-
There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
-
Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.
-
I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.
-
My late mother was very clear to my sister and I that we were to be strong women; that we were to be effective; that we were to be heard.
-
What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
-
Shakespeare was writing about his time, and it was a time when women were beginning to demand a voice, demand a say in their lives for one reason or another, mainly to do with the economics of the time.
-
The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.
