Francis Bacon Quotes

Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind.

Francis Bacon

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• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  

  Ted Allen
  • Good
  • Real
  • House

• Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Running
  • Win
  • See

• Speech happens to not be his language.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Language
  • Happens
  • Speech

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • Always
  • Never

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Creativity
  • See
  • Move

• He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Year

• I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Teach
  • Students

• I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Year

• When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Life
  • Confidence

• You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Listening

• The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Thinking
  • English
  • Language

• Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Simple

• I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Real
  • Green
  • Down

• Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Why
  • Risk
  • Thought

• You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I get a ton of scam emails. But instead of deleting them, I decided to hit reply.

  

  James Veitch

• In 1955, when I'd write a science-fiction novel, I'd set it in the year 2000. I realised around 1977 that, 'My God, it's getting exactly like those novels we used to write in the 1950s!' Everything's just turning out to be real.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • God
  • Real
  • Science

• The border sheriffs are locally elected. They're accountable. They know the territory and the people. And they can respond the most quickly to what is a real national security emergency, because the border is unprotected.

  

  John Culberson
  • People
  • Real

• We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross.

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • Die
  • Decision
  • Daily

• Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.

  

  William Plomer
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Rich

• Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Mind
  • Mysteries
  • Narrowness