Leonardo-da-vinci Quote by Norman Maclean Download Open image ““...the most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci”” — Norman Maclean ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo-da-vinci Oddballs
“such humble beginnings, where in his time his life would have been given no credence to be anything more than an illegitimate son, Leonardo… — Hourly History Copy Share Image
“Leonardo, with his profound knowledge of art, commenced various undertakings, many of which he never completed, because it appeared to him that the hand… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“But I did learn from Leonardo how a desire to marvel about the world that we encounter each day can make each moment of… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Leonardo had almost no schooling and could barely read Latin or do long division. His genius was of the type we can understand, even… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci was comfortable being illegitimate, gay, a misfit, a heretic. But he also respected other people. He didn't get into disputations. He… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.” —Leonardo da Vinci” — Katy Bowman Copy Share Image
“But Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light, and – which he held more precious – it gave her shadow. Soon… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“May my hands fall from my wrists before I kill an artist like yourself," said the man in black. "I would as soon destroy… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books. — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
“In this story of the outside world and the inside world with a fire between, the outside world of little screwups recedes now for… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
Probably most catastrophes end this way without an ending, the dead not even knowing how they died...,those who loved them forever questioning "this unnecessary… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
“I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched... Eventually the watcher joined… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
“On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In the slanting sun of… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
“The Maestro spoke again. "When we are not, at what point do we become?" I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in man or nature that does not ask questions.” — Curtis Bill Pepper Copy Share Image
“I peered at his writing, but I could make nothing of it. Then I saw why, and my soul chilled like marble. His writing… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
“This was not completely true. I had run so fast that I still had a stitch in my side, but I did not want… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
“The "Mona Lisa" is an optical illusion created by Leonardo Da Vinci. The woman in the painting "The Mona Lisa" doesn't appear to be… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Tomaso of Florence. known as Masaccio, showed by his perfect works how those who took their nourishment from anything but nature, mistress of masters,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“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… — Ross King Copy Share Image
“Being illegitimate is a technicality. It does not mean that there is anything wrong with you. Men use "bastard" as a curse. But to… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
“At times Leonardo was troubled by his lack of achievement. As a young man he appears to have developed a reputation for melancholia. “Leonardo,”… — Ross King Copy Share Image
“Let no one read my principles who is not a mathematician,” he famously declared (less famous is the fact that the principles he was… — Ross King Copy Share Image
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the same number of hours per day… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
