Francis Bacon Quotes
The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
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I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.
Pat Burns -
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm Forbes -
From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
Francesca Annis -
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
Wayne Dyer -
My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
Rafael Nadal -
I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
Fran Drescher -
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
Lal Bahadur Shastri -
I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
Kate Bush -
Pilates is great.
Orlando Bloom
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
Abraham Verghese -
It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
Yitzhak Shamir -
People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
Paddy Considine -
I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
Jack Dee
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'Hot Pursuit,' 'Pitch Perfect 2,' 'Trainwreck,' and 'Spy' were all being done in the last year. All four of those movies I just mentioned are not rom-coms: they're all about women doing different things.
Kay Cannon -
Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.
Dan Buettner -
When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.
Kevin Jorgeson -
First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.
Emanuel Cleaver -
Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia. Our time is forever now.
Alice Childress -
The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
Francis Bacon