Francis Bacon Quotes

As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.

Francis Bacon

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• I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Study
  • Working
  • Singer

• The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Different
  • Working
  • Camera

• You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Rest
  • Working
  • Helps

• Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Today
  • Working
  • Events

• Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • September
  • Images
  • Wave

• Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Giving
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Up
  • Man
  • Alone

• I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!

  

  Gage Golightly
  • Working
  • Answer
  • Phone

• Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Think
  • Working
  • Now

• I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Life
  • Different
  • Always

• I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Working
  • Being
  • Industry

• I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Support
  • Working

• I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

  

  Walter Wager
  • Working
  • Library
  • Will

• I feel like now fashion is just part of how I think about everything. When I send out a mood board to our contributors every month about our monthly theme, there are photos from our fashion shows, but there are also film stills and album art.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Art
  • Fashion
  • Mood

• I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Working
  • Vacation

• A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Doubt
  • Mood
  • Golden

• I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Working

• I like to be comfortable, and don't like to be cold, and I don't like to wear anything I'm not in the mood for.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Cold
  • Mood
  • Comfortable

• There was a scene in 'Qubool Hai' where Asad shoots his father. After shooting for it, I was drained completely. At times, my character's mood gets very depressing. Post shoot, it takes a good half hour to get out of character, to leave Asad behind.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Good
  • Character
  • Father

• What I care about is whether or not a leader will work with America's working people, whether or not a leader cares about responsibility and honest work and whether or not a leader will fight to keep the American Dream alive.

  

  Richard Trumka
  • American
  • Dream
  • Responsibility

• I think that, at the end of the day, those voters Barack Obama voters are going to join ranks, and it is going to help propel Hillary Clinton to victory.

  

  Bill Burton
  • Victory
  • Voters
  • Barack Obama

• I always say that my favorite people to interview are the people who are at the beginning and the ends of their lives because they have two alternate perspectives of the world, and neither of them are less profound.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • World
  • Beginning

• Never abandon your vision. Keep reaching to further your dreams.

  

  Benjamin Banneker
  • Dream
  • Vision
  • Abandon

• As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Working
  • Mood
  • Images