Francis Bacon Quotes

Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

Francis Bacon

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• I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Good
  • Different

• To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

  

  Major Taylor
  • World
  • Success
  • Youth

• I got my Equity card right out of NYU grad school in 2000, doing 'The Great White Hope' at Arena Stage. I played Jack Jefferson. It was an amazing part to walk into, to carry that responsibility for that amount of time. The challenges and the breadth of that role were pretty amazing.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• I've been an actress for years, and I've worked with one female director. Statistically it's less than 7% or 12% - I mean, it's low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Women
  • Years
  • Opportunities

• Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Long
  • Live

• I think things will come once I get the respect that I deserve. Keeping my belt for a long time... Things will happen like normal. I can't force those things.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • Long
  • Respect

• What's not to love about a crazy cat lady? You have to be very giving to be a crazy cat lady.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Crazy

• Let's treat this country first and foremost.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • First
  • Treat

• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Want
  • Knowledge
  • Dangerous

• Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Say
  • Will
  • Elves

• I need to lose some weight. I'm getting really fat. But I'm getting older, and I just can't stop eating wonderful food. Rich, wonderful food.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Food
  • Stop
  • Fat

• You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Power
  • Earth
  • Consequences

• I'm not a tyrant, but I can't afford to be merciful. Whatever it is necessary to do, I will do it.

  

  P. D. James

• Indeed, there is no evidence to suggest innate morality. It is therefore important to create the conditions under which the expansion of our moral communities may become more likely.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Important
  • May
  • Moral

• From forty till fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

  

  Arthur Wing Pinero
  • Heart

• If you want to get to know a character, learn about their interests, goals or desires, their butt is probably not going to give you that information.

  

  Anita Sarkeesian
  • Character
  • Goals

• I'm a perfectionist. I like to get it right. I like to get it good. And you know, writing songs is not - it's not the kind of thing that you can count on every day. You never know what's going to come or if it's going to come. So you - you know, it's an uncertain kind of a thing.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Good
  • Writing

• In order to live in a different country, you have to love something there. You have to love something there. You have to love either the spirit of the laws or the economic opportunities, or the - well, history of the country, the language perhaps, literature.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Different
  • Live
  • Country

• What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Reason
  • Secret
  • Wonderful

• The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.

  

  Ben Marcus
  • Work
  • Hand
  • Worry

• TheyAustralians've all kinds of accents, but you can never mistake their voice. It's got the sun in it. Canadians have got grinding ice in theirs, and Virginians have got butter. So have the Irish. In Britain there are no voices, only speaking-tubes.

  

  John Buchan
  • Mistake
  • Sun
  • Irish

• The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present. Yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Life
  • Future
  • Past

• Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

  

  Francis Bacon