Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

Leonardo da Vinci

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• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Lost
  • Space
  • London

• You know, Castle, like anyone else, is a human being first. If you take a human being - especially a vain one like 'Castle' -and you bring in a gorgeous woman and have sparks fly, who can help themselves? What are you gonna do? Sparks happen!

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Help
  • Woman
  • Fly

• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Home
  • Strong
  • Better

• When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Look
  • Emotion

• To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Politicians
  • Themselves

• There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Think
  • Space
  • Volunteer

• Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Live
  • Innovation
  • Ancestors

• I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Cute
  • Only
  • Revolutionary

• By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Free
  • Hands
  • Censorship

• I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Children
  • Dream
  • Night

• Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Life
  • You
  • Quarterback

• Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Attention
  • Sound
  • Influence

• It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Heart
  • Choices
  • Rights

• People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Hollywood
  • Pictures

• The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

  

  Sam Ervin
  • Past
  • Way
  • Privilege

• I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Know
  • Shoes
  • Will

• One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Advice
  • Flaws
  • Biggest

• My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Desire
  • Leader
  • Been

• Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Fear
  • Hand
  • Doubt

• Everybody wants to be fancy and new. Nobody wants to be themselves. I mean, maybe people want to be themselves, but they want to be different, with different clothes or shorter hair or less fat. It's a fact. If there was a guy who just liked being himself and didn't want to be anybody else, that guy would be the most different guy in the world and everybody would want to be him.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Duty

• I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.

  

  Gary Cohn
  • Good
  • Light
  • Negative

• Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci