Francis Bacon Quotes
It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
Victoria Azarenka -
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
Ram Dass -
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 -
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 -
You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
Salman Rushdie -
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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 -
Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
Safra A. Catz -
Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
Hailey Gates -
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 -
I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
Daisy Ridley -
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
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I like Public School and En Noir.
J. R. Smith -
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 -
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 -
Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.
Iain Duncan Smith -
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 -
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
Federica Montseny
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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.
Finley Peter Dunne -
Self-expression is impossible in relation with other men; their self-expression interferes with it. The greatest heights of self-expression in poetry, music, painting – are achieved by men who are supremely alone.
Colin Wilson -
I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.
Chantal Joffe -
It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.
Francis Bacon