Top 100 Who'da Quotes
#1. A crazy old lady, leading a band of teenagers against an angry supernatural Entity - who'da thought?
Diane M. Haynes
#3. Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#6. From the very beginning, there was not the slightest doubt that Olga da Polga was the sort of guinea pig who would go places.
Michael Bond
#8. Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#9. Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#10. 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
#13. I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
Dan Brown
#14. I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'
Cara Buono
#17. Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?
Eddie Van Halen
#18. Lil Wayne is somebody who I used to ride to school listening to in my car. You know from Tha Carter to Tha Carter II, to Dedication 1 & 2, to Da Drought, his mixtapes. You know you got that for him as him being a rap legend, somebody who you look up to.
Big Sean
#19. I like girls who aren't so la-di-da. L.A. is so la-di-da.
Chris Evans
#21. Two historical figures play prominent roles in this book: a pair of priests who lived centuries apart but who were tied together by fate. During the seventeenth century, Father Athanasius Kircher was known as the Leonardo da Vinci of the Jesuit Order.
James Rollins
#22. The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#23. Must do like one who, being poor, comes last to the fair, and can find no other way of providing himself than by taking all the things already seen by other buyers, and not taken but refused by reason of their lesser value.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#24. The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#26. Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#27. Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.
Adi Da
#28. I heard of a man
who says words so beautifully
that if he only speaks their name
women give themselves to him.
If I am dumb beside your body
while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips
it is because I hear a man climb stairs
and clear his throat outside our door.
Leonard Cohen
#35. An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#37. I ran up the street. All the way to Largo da Camara. Got there very tired. Mad, rather than tired. Uninvited old man. Little shits. They'll see who's the uninvited old man, motherfuckers.
Ignacio De Loyola Brandao
#38. I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils
Leonardo Da Vinci
#40. Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?
Leonardo Da Vinci
#41. It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#42. There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#43. Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men ... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#47. He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#48. Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#49. 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
#50. He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#53. Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#54. Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#57. He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#59. Every time someone asks me who I want to work with, my answer is always the same: whoever wants to work with me that won't want to get their ego stroked.
Cakes Da Killa
#60. If we blend efficiently democracy, demographic demand & demand, I believe that there will be a Vasco Da Gama on every street who will come searching for India.
Narendra Modi
#61. He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#62. He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#63. Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#64. Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#65. He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#66. The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#67. When I see Messi - who is the best player in the world in my opinion - lose the ball, he runs off until he gets it back or commits a foul. Our guys lose the ball and fold their arms.
Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
#68. We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what we do is determined by each one who sees and hears it.
John Cage
#69. There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying to shape the outcome, not just the people at the pinnacle of the decision-making pyramid.
Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
#70. There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.
Mark Twain
#71. Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of None, you're like, yes, this is real life to me. These are refreshing types of stories.
Daniel Radcliffe
#72. I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
Walid Jumblatt
#73. Sometimes writing is like talking to a stranger who's exactly like yourself in every possible way, only to realize that this stranger is as boring as shit.
Chuck Klosterman
#74. Jesus Christ knew the only way He would stop Satan is by becoming one in nature with him ... He became one with the nature of Satan, so all those who had the nature of Satan can partake of the nature of God.
Benny Hinn
#75. Just 'cause she's farting through silk doesn't mean she can shit on people who don't have any money.
Katherine Pancol
#76. I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Max Beerbohm
#77. Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.
Steven Pinker
#79. Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#80. The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#84. He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#85. 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
#86. The thing is, I can't love her, not in the real world. Because this would be degrading to me. To love someone who despises you, and she just might. You should see her eyes on me sometimes. Plus she's not even a mother anymore, she's just a planet with a face. Da at least has hands.
Victor Lodato
#87. Buddy, you're the one who was right!" Da Shi laughed, shaking his head. "I would never have thought that actual fucking aliens would be involved!
Liu Cixin
#89. Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#90. People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#91. Men fight wars and destroy everything around them. The earth should open and swallow them up. He who does not value life does not deserve it. Never destroy another life through rage, or through malice.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#92. Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#93. Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#94. Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#95. The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#96. Any history buffs, people who like religion, suspense and mystery mixed with history, or anyone who likes 'The Da Vinci Code,' needs to read Ken Follett.
Bonnie Somerville
#97. A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#98. The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman?
Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.
Dan Brown
#100. He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings. If the dwelling is dirty and neglected, the body will be kept by its soul in the same condition, dirty and neglected.
Leonardo Da Vinci
