Francis Bacon Quotes
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Quotes to Explore
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
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A single question remained, the age-old cry of anguish: 'How could one so beautiful be so base?'
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I guess we're all supposed to get used to living in a more dangerous world.
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If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.
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What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.
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I'm inspired by Earl Sweatshirt. He's a really honest writer, and he's unusually intelligent.
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
