Francis Bacon Quotes

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

Francis Bacon

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• I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'

  

  Aaron Lazar
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• Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.

  

  Raf Simons
  • History
  • Culture
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• I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

  

  Aaron Siskind
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• I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Time
  • Computers

• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
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• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Great
  • Art
  • Study

• If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.

  

  Jack Keane
  • You
  • Stop
  • Oil

• I would love to work with Matt Damon.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Work
  • Love
  • Would

• Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • You
  • Creativity
  • Room

• Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Voice
  • Need
  • Solitude

• While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Brain
  • Sometimes
  • Creative

• But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • People
  • Products
  • Buying

• My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Great
  • Character
  • Dad

• But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Father

• At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Clean
  • Sober
  • Ponytail

• The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Dark
  • Things

• Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

  

  Randy Newman
  • God
  • Memory
  • Thank God

• They would think she was savoring the taste (blueberries, cinnamon, cream-excellent), but she was actually savoring the whole morning, trying to catch it, pin it down, keep it safe before all those precious moments became yet another memory.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Trying
  • She
  • Morning

• My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Fear
  • Memory
  • Losing

• Neither guy wanted to yield. It was the third fight of their trilogy, and it was that important.

  

  Larry Merchant
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Fight

• The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Memory
  • Hit
  • Superstition