Quotes About Sir Francis Bacon

#1. All rising to great place is by a winding stair. - Sir Francis Bacon,

Clive Barker

#2. Money is a good servant but a bad master. - SIR FRANCIS BACON

Anthony Robbins

#3. Voltaire once wrote, "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." Sir Francis Bacon added, "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." Indira Gandhi concluded that "the power to question is the basis of all human progress." Great questions are clearly the quickest path to great answers.

Gary Keller

#4. Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.

Joseph Addison

#5. What am I? Do I know? I am a man: quite simply, a 'breather.'

Marcel Duchamp

#6. Authors are directors of the mind. Think about how you would compose a scene. Make it cinematic.

Kira Hawke

#7. he could find something to value in anyone, however apparently insignificant or wretched, and

J.K. Rowling

#8. I am part of everything that I have read.

Theodore Roosevelt

#9. I tried to close my ears to the strange worshipful chanting and fix my mind on God, but the Egyptians' idolatry weighed down my weary shoulders and brought tears to my closed eyes.

Kristen Reed

#10. It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Aristotle.

#11. From the very beginning
perplexing and wandering
from one ocean to another
an everlasting wander

Rixa White

#12. It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

Adam Baldwin

#13. I'll show Luke I can fit into the city. I'll show him I can be a true New Yorker. I'll go the gym, and then I'll eat a bagel, and I'll ... shoot someone, maybe?
Or maybe just the gym will be enough.

Sophie Kinsella

#14. She is in love. It is bright within her, like a swallowed star.

Laini Taylor

#15. Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.

Don Hewitt

#16. I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork, demoralisation, degradation, rank ignorance, overwhelming misfortune and utter penury in order to produce one rich man.

Almeida Garrett

#17. There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

Francis Bacon

#18. Addiction is a "shitty" disease

David W. Earle

#19. Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.

Fran Kranz