Francis Bacon Quotes

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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• As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Hate
  • Author
  • Loyalty

• We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Help

• Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweetness
  • Richness
  • Spice

• When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Woman
  • Wonder
  • Smart

• Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Lead
  • Street
  • Warm

• I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Work
  • Know
  • Day

• As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Funny
  • Sound
  • Everyone

• The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Always
  • Place
  • Class

• I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Parents
  • I Love
  • Llife Mine

• I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Good
  • Money
  • Building

• If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • May
  • Way

• I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Now
  • Little
  • Broadway

• You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Character
  • You
  • Either

• Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Sometimes
  • Fails
  • Succeeds

• We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Life
  • Artists
  • U.S.

• Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Think
  • Shy

• Albanians, we tan well! I don't burn; I bake.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Well
  • Burn
  • Tan

• The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Friends
  • Small
  • Interesting

• I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I remember my father taking us to meeting with lawyers, interviews with immigration officers, doing everything he could to get us that treasured Green Card - and the happiness, the sense of relief, when he finally did - we knew that we were welcome now, and we would be welcome tomorrow.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Green

• Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.

  

  Paula Patton
  • People
  • Different
  • Business

• I'm thankful for every moment.

  

  Al Green
  • Thankful

• A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Green
  • Revenge