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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Money: power at its most liquid.
Mason Cooley -
I was lucky enough to attend schools where they were understanding about when I needed to go abroad to play chess. Of course, socially it is important to go to school and interact with people your own age.
Magnus Carlsen -
Living through the intersections of cultural diversity has given me an intimate understanding of the dynamics of living between the dimensions of East and West, traditional and modern, and political and spiritual.
Deeyah Khan -
To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.
Ryan Phillippe -
I was very proud to support Obama's presidential campaign, from the primaries all the way to his historic victory.
Daniel Lubetzky -
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