#no

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#cannot #command #except #her #obeying

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#discoverers #ill #land #nothing #sea

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#creatures #first #innovations #living #living creatures

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#pleasant #variety

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#course #groupies #i #idol #love

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#because #criticism #critics #enough #friend

There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#am #bit #carefully #financial #greed

One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible. ↗

— John Badham

#around #computer #conceive #could #day

When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#better #come #contact #did #each

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#disarm #gun #gun laws #laws #mercy