Francis Bacon Quotes

Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things.

Francis Bacon

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• Trumpet
• Nature Of Things

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• If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Actors
  • Talented

• But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Want
  • Die
  • Patriotism

• I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Hunting

• Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

  

  Iris Chang
  • You
  • Yourself
  • First

• Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination. For the benefit of a minority, it is courteous to serve chilled fruit juice in addition to cocktails made with liquor.

  

  Irma S. Rombauer
  • Today
  • Imagination
  • Fruit

• I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• I don't think we'd be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban areas.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Business
  • Think
  • Today

• Uday Chopra is a person who will be a part of my life for the rest of my life. He is the most amazing human being who I have ever met in my entire life - not just in India, but around the world. If anyone is his friend, that person is lucky to have him in his life.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
  • World
  • Friend

• No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Genius

• 'Perhaps I was expecting too much.''Perhaps. We’re all waiting as fast as we can.'

  

  Larry Niven
  • Waiting

• The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.

  

  Anna Held

• In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Drinking
  • Smoking

• Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?

  

  Matt Stone
  • People
  • Good
  • Nice

• I write at home. I like to be able to take a nap, watch TV, make a sandwich, and if I wake up and don't feel like working, I'm not going to bang my head on my desk all day: I'll go out and do something else.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Up
  • Home

• I don't attack innocent people.

  

  Jessica White
  • People
  • Innocent

• Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.

  

  Anne Dudley
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Picture

• Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

  

  Freddy Fender
  • Control
  • Smile
  • Sorry

• If I make a double bogey, the fans on whatever hole better watch out; I might throw it. I might throw it at them.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Fans
  • Double
  • Bogey

• A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Artist

• When your 18th, 19, 20 years old like we were at that time, its just like anyone else, you look at like Silverchair and bands like that that are super young and sound extremely derivative of bands that were out at that current moment. As they sounded like 'Nirvana in pajamas' as we called them, we sounded like Bon Jovi and Skid Row and Motley Crue, because we were only influenced by what was out at the time because we were so young...

  

  Butch Walker
  • Bands
  • Nirvana
  • Bon Jovi

• Love is a drama of contradictions.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Drama
  • Love Is
  • Contradictions

• You need not weep for Tupac, but weep for yourself, because we are left here with these contradictions that we still must face.

  

  Afeni Shakur
  • Left
  • Contradictions

• Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Contradictions
  • Trumpet
  • Nature Of Things