Francis Bacon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
-
My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
-
Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
-
Spare no expense to save money on this one.
-
Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
-
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
-
I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
-
I never got into politics for it to be a career.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
-
There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
-
My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
-
CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
-
There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
-
I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
-
The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.
-
Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
-
I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
-
Contemporary art and the Communist Party are an impossible situation. It’s like oil and water-they can never mix.
-
I like walking on the edge.
-
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
-
Pnin slowly walked under solemn pines. The sky was dying. He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts. The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended the destinies of the quick.
-
Friday, 14 March,
-
A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
