Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Feathers shall raise men towards the heaven even as they do the birds:-That is by the letters written by their quills.

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• I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Look

• My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Grandmother
  • Characters
  • Manners

• I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Vision
  • Talk
  • Forward

• Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Idea
  • Boxing
  • Ring

• Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Young
  • Danger

• I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Vote
  • Saying
  • Responsible

• A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Thought

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Danger

• Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Long
  • Run

• I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Working Hard

• In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Family
  • Same
  • Clothing

• I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Kind
  • Say
  • Anything

• I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Never
  • Easy
  • Broke

• That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Respect
  • Football
  • Reason

• Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Technology
  • Competition
  • Go

• I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Love
  • Think
  • For Her

• On the pitch and for life generally, I keep my center by remembering that I am part of a team and if I don't do my part, I let down not just my team but everyone who follows it.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Life
  • Team

• The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • May
  • Nature

• To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Envy

• Feathers shall raise men towards the heaven even as they do the birds:-That is by the letters written by their quills.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Men
  • Heaven