Age Quote by Walter Isaacson

“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

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

Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said…

— Sigmund Freud

Leonardo da Vinci was a man of regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind; and his name became so famous that not only was…

— Giorgio Vasari

Leonardo da Vinci had such a playful curiosity. If you read his notebooks, you'll see he's curious about what the tongue of a woodpecker…

— Walter Isaacson

“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

As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and…

— Viggo Mortensen

When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on…

— Diana Gabaldon

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his…

— Anonymous

I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.

— Enid Bagnold

I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down…

— Bill Gates

“Joan of Arc came back as a little girl in Japan, and her father told her to stop listening to her imaginary friends. Elvis…

— Iain Thomas