Cottarelli Leonardo Quotes

Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character. Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past and amazing things that they've done, I came across a book about Howard Hughes and he was set up as basically, the most multi-dimensional character I could ever come across. Often, people have tried to define him in biographies, but no one seems to be able to categorize him. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio

Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

There's a difference in our ages [with Leonardo DiCaprio], but we were both in the same sort of position [on The Quick and the Death movie].Everyone below us in a casting position were all these really famous character actors like Keith David. And they were looking at the two of us going, 'Who are these guys?' So that naturally kind of put us together in a way where we'd just hang out together because we didn't care about status. We just wanted to enjoy the experience. The two things that have changed about Leo [ DiCaprio] since that time: he can drink legally and he's no longer a virgin. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio

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

I've never believed that they're separate. Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist. Michelangelo knew a tremendous amount about how to cut stone at the quarry. The finest dozen computer scientists I know are all musicians. Some are better than others, but they all consider that an important part of their life. I don't believe that the best people in any of these fields see themselves as one branch of a forked tree. I just don't see that.People bring these things together a lot. Dr. Land at Polaroid said, "I want Polaroid to stand at the intersection of art and science," and I've never forgotten that. I think that that's possible, and I think a lot of people have tried. ~ Steve Jobs

My body is not a tomb for animals. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I spent a long time in art school so I can really draw. I'll doodle and suddenly I'll find the beginning of the movie in one picture. Usually, I start my stuff on the telephone. Right by the telephone I've got a book of doodles. When I'm on the phone, I'll be doing a drawing eventually. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio

I want to be host of 'SNL.' I want to work with Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, J.J. Abrams, Emma Stone and Tim Burton, Sean Penn, Cameron Crowe. I want to work with Adam Sandler - he is so funny - and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. ~ David Mazouz

God sells us all things at the price of labor. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I touched emotions I've never tapped in my entire life. I've heard people say, 'I hope this movie doesn't glamorise drugs ... ~ Leonardo DiCaprio

Hopefully, I can follow in Leonardo DiCaprio's shoes. I probably say this in every interview, but he is one of my favorite actors of all time. ~ Jimmy Bennett

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The desire to know is natural to good men. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post. ~ George Bernard Shaw

That one of history's greatest brains struggled with amo, amas, amat should be consolation to anyone who has ever tried to learn a second language. ~ Ross King

If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they'd be making Avatar, not painting a chapel. ~ Banksy

Most of the time I just keep to myself. I think like what it would be like to be ... someone else. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio

My body is not a tomb for other creatures. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The moment has no time. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci