Francis Bacon Quotes

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Francis Bacon

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• The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • You
  • Get
  • Greedy

• Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Play
  • Scary
  • Emotions

• You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Country
  • You
  • Famous

• Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Work
  • Eye
  • Better

• To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Men
  • Women
  • Truth

• I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Real
  • Nice

• The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • World
  • Difficult
  • Finishing

• My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Faith
  • Emotions
  • Negative

• I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Love
  • Game
  • Hockey

• I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • God
  • Important

• If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Live
  • Happy
  • English

• Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Art
  • Respect
  • Myself

• It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Will

• In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Small

• My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • World
  • Great
  • Great Things

• If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you've waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass.

  

  Edmund White
  • Water
  • Sea
  • Beach

• My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Father

• We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

  

  George Will
  • Children
  • Spiritual

• Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Exciting

• I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

  

  Aidan Turner
  • School

• We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.

  

  Alfred Newman
  • World
  • Real
  • Today

• Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

  

  Francis Bacon