Francis Bacon Quotes

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

Francis Bacon

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• I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • See
  • Being
  • Far

• Women would rather be right than reasonable.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Women
  • Right
  • Rather

• I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish – there was a bit of nobility about her.

  

  Sally Field
  • Wanted
  • Her
  • Bit

• Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Beautiful
  • Peace
  • Poetry

• I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Career

• 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Taken
  • System
  • Traditions

• I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Write
  • Something
  • Events

• The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Law
  • Question
  • Day

• When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem.

  

  Young Thug
  • School
  • High
  • Problem

• Of all forms of symbolism, language is the most highly developed, most subtle, and most complicated. It has been pointed out that human beings, by agreement, can make anything stand for anything. Now, human beings have agreed, in the course of centuries of mutual dependency, to let the various noises that they can produce

  

  S. I. Hayakawa

• He would not yield, he thought, and walk more slowly,As if he knew for certain he walked to death:But with his usual pace,-deliberate, firm,Looking about him calmly, watching the world,Taking his ease . . .

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • World
  • Death

• The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That's key, and that underlies everything else.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Important
  • Society
  • Environment

• And the separatist terrorist organization, PKK, had easy access to Turkey to, inside Turkey.

  

  Bulent Ecevit
  • Organization

• They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think.

  

  Matthew Prior

• I vividly remember bowling 20 + games a day, 2 or 3 times a week.

  

  Joseph Arrington, Jr.
  • Remember

• You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.

  

  James Addison Baker
  • Good
  • House
  • Tennis

• Every tomorrow is determined by every today.

  

  James Altucher
  • Today

• Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • War
  • Sorrow
  • Kings

• The folkish philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses, and cats, but in elevating man himself.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Philosophy
  • Concerned
  • Cats

• When you mention Bieber, Lorde, One Direction, I want to be on that list. But at the same time, when you say Lil Uzi Vert, I want my name to pop up, too. I'm kinda in between both. I wanna bring them together and exist.

  

  Kevin Abstract
  • Together
  • Direction
  • Exist

• I'm expecting some crazy, creative fans. Everyone is saying that they're going to know my life story from when I walk in there. I'm looking forward to seeing what they're going to throw at us and have a good time with it.

  

  Bobby Frasor
  • Fans
  • Good Time
  • Life Story

• I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Loathe
  • Self-portraits
  • Own Face