Francis Bacon Quotes
He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.
Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
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Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.
Tyler, The Creator
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It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.
Alex Lowe
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I think if you went to a studio and pitched the first 'Insidious,' it never would have gotten made because it was so offbeat.
Jason Blum
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The truth is, as you know, people like us look at what's happening in the world, and then we project it forward. We think, 'If I know A and B, then I've got to know that C and D are coming,' and that's kind of the way it's been with my fiction.
David Ignatius
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I want truth. I'm crying out to hear it. I need it like oxygen.
Matt Roper
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All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?
Ken Livingstone
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I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there are two things involved.There's a story and there's a listener, whose attention you have to keep. Now the only way in which you can keep a reader's attention to a story is in his wanting to know what is going to happen next. This puts a fairly close restriction on the method you must use.
William Golding
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Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.
T. S. Eliot
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I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.
Vincent Van Gogh
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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.
Francis Bacon