Francis Bacon Quotes
Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.Francis Bacon
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
Victoria Pendleton -
I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.
Galen Rowell -
It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.
Paris Hilton -
'20 million other white rappers emerge, but no matter how many fish in the sea, it'll be so empty without me!'
Eminem -
Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn't been too friendly to mine.
Charles B. Rangel -
I wish that all different types of people of all races and all upbringings were all equally represented in this industry that influences so many people.
Kelly Marie Tran
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We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
Alice Paul -
Videos come definitely after the music has been created, but I have always felt, and especially today, that videos are vital in the album process. I think that we live in a very visual era, and if you make a mistake with a video, those images will accompany the song forever.
Shakira -
Supermarket automatic doors open for me; therefore, I am.
Craig Bruce -
The role I see for my books is trying to think through the consequences of various things because a lot of the issues around technology and the nuances in it are not usually widely appreciated. That's how I view my writing as I sort of explore this terra incognita ahead of us in an effort to try to understand where we might be heading.
Daniel Suarez -
I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same things over and over and I try to figure out different ways of looking at the same issue.
Charlie Kaufman -
Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.
Lynda Barry
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Parents should leave books lying around marked 'forbidden' if they want their children to read.
Doris Lessing -
Anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews; it is a problem for all of our society.
Ephraim Mirvis -
I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.
Janet Jackson -
Satan's gotta get along without me. Since I've broke the chain of sin I know for sure that he can't win.
Buck Owens -
A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a silly little boy. And this wonderful friend had talked to me of the saints and shown me that even when I had outdone myself in absurdity I was not alone.
Hermann Hesse -
As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It does not matter the circumstances, trials, or challenges that might surround us; an understanding of the doctrine of Christ and His Atonement will be the source of our strength and peace-yes, brothers and sisters, that internal tranquility that is born of the Spirit and which the Lord gives to His faithful Saints.
Benjamin de Hoyos -
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
Richard Russo -
My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
Gary Paulsen -
Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.
Francis Bacon