Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

I give the degrees of things seen by the eye as the musician does of the sounds heard by the ear.

Leonardo da Vinci

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• Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Music
  • Think
  • Talent

• When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • You
  • Small
  • Seeing

• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Movie

• I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Dream

• I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Doing
  • Own
  • Been

• I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Society
  • Words
  • Choose

• My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Job
  • Day
  • First

• I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Lost
  • Winning
  • Tennis

• There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.

  

  Eddie Plank
  • Believe
  • First
  • Old

• Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Why
  • You
  • Thought

• You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
  • Music
  • Color

• Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Right
  • Champion
  • Olympic

• One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • Change
  • Water

• I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Movies
  • Original

• What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Women
  • Care
  • Unemployment

• Waka Flocka is a product, a franchise, a brand, a label... And a good guy!

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Product

• History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

  

  Babasaheb
  • History
  • Victory
  • Conflict

• My #1 driving force is my lord and savior Jesus Christ. Also my family, my wife and children.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Children
  • Family
  • Wife

• My aim has been to expound Scripture and to expound Scripture in such a way that I do not set one Scripture over against another.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Scripture

• Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Littles
  • Pleasant
  • Surprising

• You have to keep on disrupting. If you let up the pressure, then al-Qaeda senior leadership will come back.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Up
  • Leadership
  • Senior

• But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Imagination
  • Gardens
  • Free Play

• I give the degrees of things seen by the eye as the musician does of the sounds heard by the ear.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci