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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. On Leonardo Da Vinci


Pierre Auguste Renoir

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN ...the most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci
NORMAN MACLEAN The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
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DEVIN J. MONROE Well, for that matter, I was also a good friend of Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Francis Bacon, Alb...
ALYSON NOEL Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.
SARAH DUNANT In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home ...
JANE LEAVY Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is nee...
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VIGGO MORTENSEN Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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STEVEN PINKER I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR I am still progressing.
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PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well ben...
DAN BROWN If Da Vinci had to tweet 5 times a day,
we’d still be riding bicycles.
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The gray area between...
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and I picked up that arrowhead
in tears, that broken point
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HE ZHENLIANG This will be conducive to the development of Sino-US relations and China's relationships with the re...
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HE YAFEI They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act.
HE YAFEI We are willing to import more U.S. goods.
HE YAFEI Even when he's making dumplings with peasants, he speaks memorized words and sounds like a People's ...
HE WEIFANG This is a critical moment. There is a lot of opposition to continuing the reforms as they are today.
HE WEIFANG I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties.
HE WEIFANG The situation exists in almost every well-known Chinese university.
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MARIE CURIE May my hands fall from my wrists before I kill an artist like yourself," said the man in black. "I w...
WILLIAM GOLDMAN The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
RAYMOND CHANDLER my grandfather would have loved to have met you," Charles told her huskily. "He would have called yo...
PATRICIA BRIGGS In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they ...
ORSON WELLES I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'
IAN MCKELLEN There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do no...
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FRANÇOIS FÉNELON Our life is made by the death of others.
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LEONARDO DA VINCI Life well spent is long.
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LEONARDO DA VINCI The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as ar...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
LEONARDO DA VINCI A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
LEONARDO DA VINCI The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
LEONARDO DA VINCI You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
LEONARDO DA VINCI The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.
LEONARDO DA VINCI It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
LEONARDO DA VINCI He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
LEONARDO DA VINCI All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
LEONARDO DA VINCI I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
LEONARDO DA VINCI Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigo...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
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ABBE PIERRE Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recogn...
PIERRE LOTI The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
PIERRE BAYLE True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
PIERRE CORNEILLE It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear pow...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest c...
ABBE PIERRE There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first auth...
PIERRE BAYLE I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Euro...
PIERRE LAVAL In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basical...
PIERRE OMIDYAR Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, whic...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER