Becchetti Leonardo Quotes

If you are on the side whence the wind is blowing you will see the trees looking much lighter than you would see them on the other sides; and this is due to the fact that the wind turns up the reverse side of the leaves which in all trees is much whiter than the upper side. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

58. "Love is something so ugly that the human race would die out if lovers could see what they were doing" (Leonardo da Vinci). ~ Maggie Nelson

The modern version of Buridan's ass [a figurative description of a man of indecision] has a Ph.D., but no time to grow up as he is undecided between making a Leonardo da Vinci in the test tube or planting a Coca Cola sign on Mars. ~ Erwin Chargaff

Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on. ~ Sam Rockwell

I have the same problem as Edward Furlong. I'm so thin! ~ Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack in 'Titanic' was my childhood crush! ~ Christa B. Allen

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead? ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I thought i was learning to live but i was learning to die ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain; and this is felt in the joints of the legs, the forehead and the nose, and has been so devised for the preservation of man, because if such pain were not felt in these limbs they would be destroyed by the many blows they receive. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I've really only had one (dream) since I got into this business at 13 years old, which was to be in this business forever. Once I did my first television commercial, I caught that itch and that bug. I want to be a part of pieces of art - as far as cinema is concerned - that people will want to see for generations to come. That's my dream. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio

The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo and Juliet.' ~ Brenton Thwaites

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo believed his research had the
potential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last year he categorically proved the existence of
an energy force that unites us all. He actually demonstrated that we are all physically connected ... that
the molecules in your body are intertwined with the molecules in mine ... that there is a single force
moving within all of us." Langdon felt disconcerted. And the power of God shall unite us all. "Mr. Vetra actually found a way
to demonstrate that particles are connected?"
"Conclusive evidence. A recent Scientific American article hailed New Physics as a surer path to God
than religion itself. ~ Dan Brown

My arm strength is puny, but I'd hold Luna longer than Kate Winslet let Leonardo DiCaprio share a door in Titanic. The thought puffs out my chest like I'm invincible. ~ Becca Ritchie

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth. ~ Theresa Breslin

(Eve)"Hold on. You have to give them a gift for moving?"
"Uh-huh. Plus they're shacking, so it should be a couple thing." She (Mavis) ate another canape, fed on to Leonardo.
"Why does there have to be a gift for every damn thing?" Eve complained.
"Retail conspiracy." Roarke patter her knee.
"I bet it is," Eve said darkly. "I just bet it is. ~ J.D. Robb

Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I had a premonition when I was nine that I'd marry Leonardo DiCaprio. ~ Blake Lively

I urge individuals around the world to stand up, and ask local leaders, if they haven't already, to pledge to purchase cleaner cars, build green facilities, and buy green power like wind or solar energy. Our actions may determine if we become a casualty in the war for a habitable planet for generations to come. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio

It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio

O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio

I believe man will fly and I base this assumption on the fact that God has blessed us with minds that are capable of imagining it. Anything that can be dreamt of will eventually be built. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool.
(As quoted by a fictional Leonardo in DaVinci Demons) ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

We will know which stars to visit. Our descendants will then skim the light years, the children of Thales and Aristarchus, Leonardo and Einstein. ~ Carl Sagan

The most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci ~ Norman Maclean

Two little mice fell into a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned, but the second mouse, he struggled so hard that he eventually churned that cream into butter and he walked out. Amen. ~ Frank William Abagnale

Vision without execution is hallucination. .. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo [da Vinci] knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history's consummate innovator. ~ Walter Isaacson

I met Leonardo DiCaprio and Busta Rhymes the same night, on my birthday in New York. ~ Jason Mitchell

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

To speak of this subject you must ... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and its wings, in the third the method of working the wings in their various movements, in the fourth the power of the wings and the tail when the wings are not being moved and when the wind is favourable to serve as guide in various movements. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci