Francis Bacon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
-
I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
-
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
-
It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
-
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
-
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
-
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
-
Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
-
The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
-
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
-
I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
-
Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
-
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
-
A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
-
On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
-
The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.
-
Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
-
In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
-
Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.
-
The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.
-
Wisdom is knowing when to share your wisdom and when to just keep quiet.
-
If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.
-
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
