Francis Bacon Quotes

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Francis Bacon

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• The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Celebrity

• When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Musicians

• You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • You
  • Know
  • Person

• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Great
  • Art
  • Study

• I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Reading
  • Thought

• I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Free

• I love action movies.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Love
  • Action
  • Movies

• If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Sky
  • Create
  • Walk

• As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Professional
  • Actor
  • Choice

• Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember - there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Women
  • Remember
  • Help

• When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Movies
  • Everything
  • Learned

• It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Sweet
  • Laundry

• There are not enough going into production so that we can tout them. Look at 'Precious'... In order for them to stand out, they have to get made in the first place, and that's just not happening enough.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Enough
  • Look
  • Stand

• And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Happy
  • Training
  • Mission

• I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Book

• This Court now concludes that independent political expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Political
  • Independent

• At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • American
  • History

• When I first started playing golf, I was heavily into softball and basketball.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Golf
  • Basketball
  • Softball

• My mom has always just been one of those people who handle adversity and challenges, and really everything, with so much grace and elegance. I saw it all the time.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • People
  • Time
  • Mom

• In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Positive

• Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.

  

  Anita Hill
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • People
  • Believe
  • Mind

• Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Adversity