Francis Bacon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
-
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
-
I love working the legislative process.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
-
I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.
-
Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
-
The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
-
We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
-
The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
-
Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
-
Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
-
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
-
I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
-
I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
-
But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
-
However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
-
I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!
-
I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.
-
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
-
How can a mother's heart feel cold or wearyKnowing her dearer self safe, sheltered, warm?How can she feel her road too dark or dreary,Who knows her treasure sheltered from the storm?How can she sin? Our hearts may be unheeding,Our God forgot, our holy saints defied;But can a mother hear her dead child pleading,And thrust those little angel hands aside?
-
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
-
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.