Francis Bacon Quotes
Lastly, there are Idols which have immigrated into men's minds from the various dogmas of philosophies, and also from wrong laws of demonstration. These I call Idols of the Theater, because in my judgment all the received systems are but so many stage plays, representing worlds of their own creation after an unreal and scenic fashion.Francis Bacon
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov -
People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
Madchen Amick -
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
Carlisle Floyd -
English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
Yael Naim -
We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
Walter Matthau -
I never sing in the shower either.
Barbra Streisand
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The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?
Randy Wayne White -
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
H. G. Wells -
I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
Garth Nix -
These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
Taylor Wilson -
One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
Cameron Russell -
We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
Nat Friedman
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I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.
Vanity -
Literature has become too psychological.
Karan Mahajan -
I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
E. L. Doctorow -
But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
Damien Hirst -
The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
D. H. Lawrence -
I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.
Kara Walker
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The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.
Franz Halder -
The country crowd just has fun.
Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum -
You know what it would just be amazing to be remembered, you know like a mum telling a daughter ‘the boyband of my time, One Direction, they just had fun and they’re just normal guys but terrible, terrible dancers.’
Louis Tomlinson One Direction -
George W. Bush presided over an international network of torture chambers and, with the help of a compliant Congress and press, launched a war of aggression that killed hundreds of thousands of men, women and children.
Jodie Evans -
Re-wind when the crowd say Bo' Selecta ** song Artful Dodger Feat. Craig David - Re-Rewind
Craig David -
Lastly, there are Idols which have immigrated into men's minds from the various dogmas of philosophies, and also from wrong laws of demonstration. These I call Idols of the Theater, because in my judgment all the received systems are but so many stage plays, representing worlds of their own creation after an unreal and scenic fashion.
Francis Bacon