Francis Bacon Quotes

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Francis Bacon

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• I think my numbers speak for themselves.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Numbers

• It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Worry

• I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Life
  • Good
  • Habits

• I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Working
  • Legacy
  • Possibility

• I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Know
  • Car
  • Everyone

• A busybody's work is never done.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Never

• From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Look
  • Down
  • Heights

• I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Depression
  • Bed

• Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • Long
  • Art
  • Me

• The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • Vision
  • Broken

• I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Myself

• We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Think
  • Want
  • Finding

• I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Action
  • Military
  • Terrorism

• I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • People
  • Kids
  • Want

• My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • School
  • Family

• It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Long
  • Marriage

• The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Important
  • Money
  • Man

• I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Work
  • Money
  • Happy

• The players get no respect around here. They give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here.

  

  Don Mattingly
  • Money
  • Why
  • Respect

• I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough money. But to stay in the Top Ten for weeks on end when I'm in my forties by letting Glen Ballard write songs for me? F**k that.

  

  Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots
  • Money
  • Songs
  • Forties

• Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Believe
  • Game

• Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Money