Francis Bacon Quotes
There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
E. W. Howe -
Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.
Damien Chazelle -
My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
Najib Mikati -
Be happy in your own skin.
Octavia Spencer -
If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.
Lacey Schwimmer -
Think of it as evolution in action.
Larry Niven
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So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.
Neil Innes -
I think that the story of a woman who is coming into her powers can really happen at any age.
Lauren Ambrose -
Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.
Christopher Reeve -
I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that's scary. It is what it is, man, I don't be trippin'. I couldn't tell God when I wanted to be born.
Kevin Gates -
It's so hard to make noise coming from a small town that by the time you start branding yourself, you've grown in a certain way.
Justin Scott -
I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.
David Hockney
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I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.
Kazuo Ishiguro -
I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form.
Kit Williams -
Mention health in most companies, and the cost of health insurance is what comes to mind, not how the company can invest to prevent further escalation in societal health care costs.
John Quelch -
I write about six to seven hours a day, five days a week, unless I'm traveling.
Jason Reynolds -
In polo, you jump on a horse and you play. To play tennis, you have to train every day. It's your legs that do all the work. In polo, it's the horses' legs.
Adolfo Cambiaso -
I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.
John Shelton Reed
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We have a track record of setting ambitious sustainability goals, and going after them. In the end, there is only one planet, and we all want to live on it, and we want to be able to do so with a good quality of life. That requires us to hit our sustainability goals.
James Quincey -
Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.
Bion of Smyrna -
There are lots of people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them are under seven years old.
Esa Saarinen -
Theosophy is that ocean of knowledge which spreads from shore to shore of the evolution of sentient beings; unfathomable in its deepest parts, it gives the greatest minds their fullest scope, yet, shallow enough at its shores, it will not overwhelm the understanding of a child.
William Quan Judge -
There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.
Francis Bacon