Francis Bacon Quotes
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Quotes to Explore
-
Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
-
In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
-
Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
-
I want to be judged on my own merits.
-
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
-
I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
-
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
-
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
-
Making music is fantastic.
-
I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
-
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
-
This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
-
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
-
Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
-
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
-
Writing is the supreme solace.
-
Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
-
I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
-
What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.
-
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
-
Unlike every other other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.
-
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
-
Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.
-
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
