Francis Bacon Quotes

For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

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• It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • World
  • Child
  • Touring

• You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

  

  Iain Glen
  • You
  • Foolish
  • Smoke

• I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Extraordinary

• Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • You
  • Now
  • London

• I don't even have my own computer.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Computer
  • Own
  • My Own

• The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.

  

  Laura Moser
  • People
  • Why
  • Kids

• I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Life
  • Father
  • Sweet

• By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
  • Broadway
  • Toy

• Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Writing
  • Planning

• In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • American
  • Change

• Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Up
  • Important
  • School

• Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • You
  • Change
  • Stop

• If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids
  • House
  • Small

• The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Baseball

• Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Angry
  • Walk

• I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

  

  Cavour
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Truth

• The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Rest
  • Enjoy

• I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realised that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.

  

  Alain Bombard
  • Man
  • Sea
  • Fight

• No, no entro. Porque si entro no hay nadie.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Home
  • Aspect
  • Thornfield Hall

• For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Man
  • Spark
  • Forbid