Francis Bacon Quotes

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

Francis Bacon

• Painting
• Anything
• Hopeless

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• I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Love
  • Game
  • Lucky

• Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Reality
  • Never
  • Plans

• There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • World
  • Man
  • Old Man

• If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Car

• The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • God
  • Love
  • Funny

• You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Know
  • Boy

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Man
  • Culture
  • Marriage

• I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Call
  • Temper
  • Abusive

• Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Future
  • Achievement
  • Gender

• Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Fashion
  • Unique
  • Leveler

• I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Study
  • Too Much
  • Cricket

• I've never been one for crushing on famous people.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Never
  • Famous

• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Business
  • Political
  • Drunk

• I like Public School and En Noir.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • School
  • Like
  • Public School

• My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Sports

• I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

  

  Beck
  • Done
  • Me
  • Couple

• Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Understanding
  • Break

• You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Stupid

• I'll play as long as I'm still willing to work this much, to do all these sacrifices

  

  Stefan Edberg
  • Long
  • Play
  • Sacrifice

• When I first started 'Humans of New York,' I was writing short stories. There were about 50 of them. And, you know, they were a great part of the site, but the photography just started growing so fast that I didn't have time to make them anymore.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• The earliest truth that we're taught is that there's a world alongside this world, with spirits, not mortals, an enchanted universe of fairies, wizards, leprechauns and trolls. They are all around us. One has only to open his eyes.

  

  William Holman Hunt
  • Universe
  • Spirit
  • Wizards

• I dance. I don't really do anything else.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Anything
  • Else

• It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Painting
  • Anything
  • Hopeless