Books Quote by Francis Bacon Download Open image “Time is the author of authors.” — Francis Bacon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Time
You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions. — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
“A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard. — Bobby Ghosh Copy Share Image
There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Time is the main subject for any musicians, music writers, composers. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
