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The only really interesting thing is
what happens between two people in a room.


Francis Bacon

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ANONYMOUS Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
DAVID LYNCH The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually h...
MIKE MYERS Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connect...
MARK RYLANCE Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coc...
DRIES VAN NOTEN Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people l...
SIMON RATTLE It is impossible to love and to be wise.
FRANCIS BACON SR. The strange thing about falling in love is, we know what it looks and feels like. But we can’t rea...
CHARLIE MACLEAN The strange thing about falling in love is, we know what it looks and feels like. But we can’t rea...
CHARLIE MACLEAN What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.
CHARLES JENCKS The first kiss between two people is something really good in life.
JULIANA HATFIELD The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.
JASON GANN All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - ...
FRANCIS BACON The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they we...
NEIL GAIMAN I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lack...
LUCIAN FREUD Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS When two prideful people meet, nothing really happens
DEICY ZULEICA GONZALEZ Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.
SIMONE SIGNORET What happens outside you, and what happens inside you - happens in two entirely different worlds. Yo...
MANOJ ARORA It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of whic...
OTTO PENZLER Contemporaries only know the authority figures and the loudmouths. And the people born into power. B...
JACK MCDEVITT A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.
JOSHUA FOER The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
EARL WEAVER How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thin...
DON DELILLO He seems to be supporting her tenderly. But what holds them together is difficult to pin down.
...
BARBARA BROWNING My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all.
MARCIA CLARK Josh: "What is this thing?"
Gasper: "It's a Yeti. An abominable snowman."
Biff: "This is w...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to m...
CLIVE BARKER What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.
MICHAEL ONDAATJE Internet and big data will eventually reduce the war between people and nations. That brings awarene...
WOHI PURANA To be married in our profession is not an easy thing. There's too many beautiful people around, very...
ANTONIO BANDERAS I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a ho...
MARK RYLANCE It's a great dynamic. The dynamic between men and women in the workplace is really interesting.
ELISABETH MOSS I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many...
DAVID LYNCH English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you beh...
RACHEL JOHNSON Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends
BUDDHA Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends
SWEDISH PROVERB What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.
"Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, ...
MITCH ALBOM Pope Francis has aimed a blow at what the whole hierarchical system is built on: a graded system wit...
EUGENE KENNEDY The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
DALTON TRUMBO The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress
DALTON TRUMBO If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong.
SARAH JESSICA PARKER Gee, I’m really glad I came.”
Jess turned to Leslie in unbelief.
“It was better than...
KATHERINE PATERSON When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting femal...
JERRY SALTZ No one wants to do it with a chick who smells like bacon."

Her brow creases. "Everybody ...
SARAH OCKLER Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the cor...
ALAN COREN I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but al...
JOHN HEYWOOD I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all...
BILL HIRST It's a misconception that love can only foster between two people of opposite sex. Love is a bon...
RANDEEP HOODA If there's a message, it's that the unlovable and unattractive parts of ourselves should be embraced...
HELEN HUNT two people who were once very close can
without blame
or grand betrayal
become strang...
WARSAN SHIRE In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbo...
DAN SHECHTMAN The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Buds in the snow
—the deadly fight
between two birds
JACK KEROUAC The only thing I really love is Fiji water. That's like the only crazy request - I don't lik...
KELLY ROWLAND People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really t...
ZADIE SMITH Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. My friend Kathy is the only person who'll be halfway honest with me. 'Did you ever see a cowboy film...
MARIAN KEYES We have a distinct difference between what happens downtown and in the outside districts. There is a...
BOBBY LIEB All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going...
BOB DYLAN The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.
KAREN ELSON You hunt... Your fellow creatures?" I ask, still in disbelief.

"Of course. A hunt is onl...
M.D. ELSTER I'm still kinda old-school. We're twittering, and we're all twitterers. And we write twe...
BIZ STONE The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
GORE VIDAL It can happen to your friends and neighbors, and most of the time it happens between two people who ...
JEANIE REIMER There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or you're out. There's no such thi...
PAT RILEY What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.
HARUKI MURAKAMI The only thing I know is that no one ever sat in a therapist's or a psychiatrist's room sayi...
JAMES CORDEN Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN It only takes three people to incite a mob, and that's exactly what happens in this play.
BRIAN CROWE It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the l...
JEFFREY BERNARD What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between...
EARLE BROWN 'Superman' has always been about Lois Lane, Superman and Clark Kent and this love triangle b...
BRYAN SINGER That thing you thought you'd do
You start to think you can't;
You always say tomorrow,
MARGO T. ROSE The month of February was a really good month. The most important thing is what we do in the next tw...
MIKE LISTERMAN He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
TOBA BETA For me the most interesting part of theater is the relationship between the audience and the perform...
DAVID ROCKWELL Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. ...
ANN BEATTIE Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.
ROBIN WILLIAMS What really matters is what happens in us- not to us.
UNKNOWN He's so, so humble and really he does walk in the footsteps of St. Francis. This is a wonderful test...
REV. RODNEY THIBAULT From “Rock Star” in Every Lyric Tells A Story.
What happens to a rock star
When he get...
MARK WILKINS If I were in a room full of people, I'd rather be the person who is more interesting than the on...
MARILYN MANSON My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a k...
JULIAN SCHNABEL Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
ETTY HILSUM Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
ETTY HILLESUM Every meet is an individual entity. When we get to divisions, we'll see what happens. And then state...
LEE MOGAVERO The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in thing makes it happen.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT It'll be interesting to see what happens in the next 24 to 48 hours. I think it'll be a big decision...
TAMMY PETERS He joined Jude in the kitchen and began making a salad, and JB slumped to the dining-room table and ...
HANYA YANAGIHARA Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Yep," I say, cutting a large slice of the Dutch Baby pancake and sliding it onto her plate along wit...
STACEY BALLIS All of the celebrities in the competition not only have the ability to skate, but the desire to exce...
ARTHUR SMITH We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the
personality of the artist; and if that is ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM A smile is the shortest distance between two people.
VICTOR BORGE The shortest distance between two people is a smile.
VICTOR BORGE It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in inti...
ERIC BRAEDEN

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FRANCIS BACON Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
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FRANCIS BACON Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
FRANCIS BACON Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed op...
FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON Boldness is a child of ignorance.
FRANCIS BACON Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New.
FRANCIS BACON All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - ...
FRANCIS BACON The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the w...
FRANCIS BACON