Vinci

Famous quotes containing the word vinci:

    The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
    —Leonardo Da Vinci (1425–1519)

    In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
    Orson Welles (1915–84)

    Life well spent is long.
    —Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519)