Francis Bacon Quotes

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

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• It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Change
  • Me
  • Grief

• I've been doing African dance all my life.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Life
  • Dance
  • My Life

• Home is where one starts from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Home
  • Where
  • Starts

• Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Be Yourself

• I was writing a lot even as a kid.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Writing
  • Kid
  • Even

• I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Words
  • Always
  • Either

• I'm not a materialistic person.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Person
  • Materialistic

• I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Trying
  • Jerk
  • Snob

• While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • World
  • Great
  • Eyes

• There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Help
  • Illness
  • Universal

• We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Pay

• That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Great
  • Support
  • Comedy

• Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Father
  • Political

• Customers are using BetterWorks in a number of creative ways to reward and incentivize employees.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Creative
  • Reward
  • Employees

• I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Live
  • Money
  • Man

• The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Trying
  • Food

• Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History

• I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.

  

  Connie Chung
  • Son
  • Daughter

• The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

  

  Frank Zappa

• Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

  

  Hamlin Garland
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Nature

• Belief in one’s identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one’s immortality...and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Identity

• Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Country
  • Judge
  • Born

• Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Fall