Francis Bacon Quotes

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

Francis Bacon

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• Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Three

• Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Him

• I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.

  

  Kaki King
  • Music
  • Color
  • Red

• There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • America
  • Movement

• Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Truth
  • Very
  • Tell

• People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Government
  • Trust

• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Air
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Home
  • Movie
  • Doing

• I think every woman in their life wants to give a good face smack.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Woman

• My mom grew up with horses, and when I turned 14, 15, she's like, 'Do you want to take a riding lesson?' I thought, 'Oh, gross, dirty.' She was like, 'Okay.' And then I did, and now I'm the one cleaning those damn stalls out. You can't get me away from the barn now. It shocks even me.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • She
  • Mom

• When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Love
  • Home
  • Like

• I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Control
  • Write
  • Over

• My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Parents
  • Complete
  • Outfit

• When I see young people interested in music. I always look out for that passion in their eyes. You never know where that might lead.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • People
  • Music
  • Eyes

• If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • World
  • Trying
  • Training

• I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

  

  Lester Bangs
  • Stupid
  • Hero

• I like to make people dream and think and imagine and learn and study. Nowadays, music is so literal - it's telling you, "This is how it is," and my music's the opposite. I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know.

  

  Dawn Angelique
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Dream

• I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal knowledge, medically expert knowledge, and so on.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Knowledge
  • Concerned
  • Varieties

• I was a production assistant in the post department on 'The Surreal Life.' And it's been reported before that I was an assistant editor on 'The Surreal Life.' That is not true.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Life
  • True

• Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Voice
  • Find
  • Boys

• Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

  

  Francis Bacon