Francis Bacon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
-
When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
-
A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
-
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
-
I love books.
-
I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me.
-
Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
-
I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from.
-
I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.
-
In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.
-
I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
-
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
-
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-
Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
-
My parents were hippies.
-
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
-
You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy.
-
I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.
-
I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.
-
Never do I deceive you, Hastings. I only permit you to deceive yourself.
-
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.
-
You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
-
I used to actually work in a comic book stores in New York.
-
Primum quaerite bona animi; caetera aut aderunt, aut non oberunt
