Francis Bacon Quotes

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Francis Bacon

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• The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Act
  • Possibilities

• I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Free
  • Myself

• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Kids
  • Band
  • Cool

• If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Failure
  • Child
  • Parent

• I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Famous

• I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Mother
  • Hand
  • Now

• All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Life
  • Law
  • Health

• It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Time
  • Me
  • Trouble

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • Believe
  • May
  • Circumstances

• For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Up
  • End
  • Very

• Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Me
  • Always
  • Gym

• As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Lose

• I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Lost
  • Winning
  • Tennis

• The way I look at it you can always get better.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • You
  • Better
  • Look

• It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Music
  • True
  • Walking

• It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Think
  • For Him
  • Loving

• No one can look bad when you've been lit for six hours.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Bad
  • You
  • Look

• I got to have a TV show that really was the talk of the nation for a while there. So I'm a very lucky guy.

  

  Marc Cherry
  • Guy

• The people did not talk about reciprocal concessions but demanded liberties and guarantees, which brought inevitably in many sectors a crueler war than the French would have waged otherwise.

  

  Che Guevara
  • People
  • War

• My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.

  

  Brian Herbert
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Dad

• While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • May
  • Reality
  • Past

• Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Experience
  • Education
  • Travel