#vinci

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

#dan-brown #the-da-vinci-code #men

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#simplicity #sophistication #simplicity

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#apartheid #attention #because #crucial #did

The man who doesn't want anything is invincible. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#invincible #man #want #who

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#around #chords #convincing #energy #forget

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#because #contention #contests #defeat #harbor

It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#because #been #clarified #federal #governments

The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'? ↗

— Rob Zombie

#convincing #hardest #i #like #part

We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#canada #cooperation #doing #forces #government

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#commissioners #convictions #governments #happened #marriage