Francis Bacon Quotes

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

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• Politics is largely a matter of heart.

  

  R. A. Butler
  • Heart
  • Politics
  • Matter

• By and large my relations with the US were good.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Good
  • U.S.
  • Large

• Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Work
  • Woman
  • Equal

• You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Long
  • Love
  • Passion

• Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • Country
  • Family

• I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Silent

• I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Think
  • Violence
  • Racial

• A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Painting
  • Find
  • Tough

• When the Lord of the Wedding Rings held his no-questions-asked press conference, he said he was sorely 'troubled.' At last, I thought, an admission. But no, he wasn't talking about his mental condition.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Wedding

• An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

  

  Avicenna
  • Death

• There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'

  

  Chelsea Handler

• Necessity creates everything in my life.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Life

• Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

  

  David Hyde Pierce
  • Family

• Being an actor, I've thought about being in the male gaze.

  

  Betty Gilpin

• In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.

  

  Jason Schwartzman
  • People
  • Life
  • City

• A lot of my friends - I am the only white person in their circle. Being able to hear other perspectives besides the white conservative approach has really given me a perspective that I want to share and challenge people to think about.

  

  Andy Mineo
  • People
  • Friends
  • Challenge

• At times, I couldn't understand what I was doing. I just knew I needed to stick with it. It was instinct, and that's what I've always relied upon.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Times
  • Instinct
  • Stick

• The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Rules
  • Emotions
  • Stick

• You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Giving

• Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back and just win some Tony Awards.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Life
  • Money
  • Goal

• This is my wish for all who read this... I hope you are feeling happy, safe and loved.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Happy
  • Hope
  • Feeling

• Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Stick
  • Calumnies
  • Hurl