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Bacon improved things dramatically. -- Kristin Cashore
Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Bacon bits are like the fairy dust of the food community. -- Jim Gaffigan
Bacon's the best. Even the frying of bacon sounds like applause. -- Jim Gaffigan
What is the one thing that 43% of men prefer over sex? Bacon! -- Jon Taffer
Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string. -- Hugh Kingsmill
Bacon is like the opposite of medicine. It's like, "Take that, Lipitor." -- Jim Gaffigan
Bacon is like a good pair of Levi's-it never goes out of style. -- Michael Symon
Mmmm. Move over, eggs. Bacon just got a new best friend - fudge. -- Homer
Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces. -- David Lynch
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others. -- George Eliot
I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do. -- Eric Roberts
The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too. -- John Dryden
Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet. -- Thomas Carlyle
We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding. -- Nicolas Chamfort
In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Bacon. Crispy. Salty. I could just eat a mountain of bacon for breakfast; it's so delicious. -- Willie Geist
In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms? -- Samuel Beckett
I realized that Judaism required me to give up something that meant too much to me...Bacon cheeseburgers. -- Shawnee Smith
Bacon's on the way." He smiled. "Hey, they like you!" Wrath to Beth after the brother's bow to her. -- J.R. Ward
(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short. -- Richard Armour
Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound. -- Charles Caleb Colton
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts. -- Auguste Comte
I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving. -- Owen Wilson
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it. -- William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written. -- Noel Coward
You can't tell me the success of Kevin Bacon isn't somehow tied to his name. You're not going out to see a Kevin Hot-Dog movie. -- Jim Gaffigan
When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting. -- Jerry Saltz
I met Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Kevin Bacon at Sundance. Steve Buscemi is pretty laid-back. I met Judy Greer in Vegas, and she was cool. -- Mark Zupan
The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig. -- Ogden Nash
Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects... the list is endless. -- Dries van Noten
[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory. -- George Bernard Shaw
I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper. -- David Lynch
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
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. -- James M. Barrie
Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols. -- Marshall McLuhan
Danzhol. The one with the marriage proposal and the objections to the town charter in central Monsea. "Bacon," Bitterblue muttered. "Bacon!" she repeated, then carefully made her way up the spiral stairs. -- Kristin Cashore
Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth. -- Mark Rylance
There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music. -- Carlisle Floyd
Bacon , Locke , Descartes , Hume , and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves. -- Allan Bloom
I am out of money,we are all out of money,but we dont need money down here- Dont need anything but Men , Muskets, Ammunition, Hard Tack, Bacon and Letters from home. -- James A. Connolly
Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master. -- Thomas Young
Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism. -- Jerry Saltz
It's 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is Hitler. Can I play? Let's see. Mother Teresa had a mustache. Hitler had a mustache. Mother Teresa is Hitler! -- Lewis Black
I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon. -- Damien Hirst
It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that. -- Jeffrey Bernard
I'm a big State Fair person, and my main goal is to eat as much food as possible, but I tend not to do the foods on a stick. But I like Big Fat Bacon. -- Alison McGhee
It's a pretty blokey magazine [Bacon Busters, 'Australia's only magazine dedicated to pig hunting'], but they have women in it too. There's a 'Boars and Babes' section: women in bikinis sitting on big old pigs. -- Andrew Symonds
The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.' -- Penn Jillette
Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood. -- Gabourey Sidibe
The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament. -- Bernard Bailyn
There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Bacon is clearly a food made by the Nazis to fatten up Americans. It has no nutritional value, is full of fat, sodium, and nitrates, and is a pathetic type of consumable made from the noblest of creatures. -- Andy Rooney
Itâ??s best not to experiment on yourself. Bacon practically froze himself to death in one of his experiments and died of pneumonia.â? {Right! Bacon must be heated. Knew that already, but thanks for the reminder.} -- Kevin Hearne
I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do. -- Lucian Freud
The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am!" And though he ate the pig quite fast, He carefully kept the tail till last. -- Roald Dahl
My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however influenced they may have been by other people, even my earliest paintings were recognisably my own. -- Julian Schnabel
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not the man in the moon, not the groaning-board, not the speaking of friar Bacon's brazen- head, not the inspiration of mother Shipton, or the miracles of Dr. Faustus, things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed. -- Daniel Defoe
You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable. -- Peter Doig
But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays. -- Mark Rylance
From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding. -- Kenneth R. Miller
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Error. -- Lord Acton
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility -- Charles Caleb Colton
I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy. -- Ben Stein
I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove. -- Mark Rylance
Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?' -- Zach Galligan
I like Francis Bacon best, because Francis Bacon has terrific problems, and he knows that he is not going to solve them, but he knows also that he can escape from day to day and stay alive, and he does that because his work gives him a kick. -- Louise Bourgeois
This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Of the last honour I think the boulder fully worthy. -- Archibald Geikie
Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has worked with the Francis Bacon estate - it was really through my friendship with Tony that I developed even more of an interest in art. -- Owen Wilson
All science requires mathematics. [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.] -- Roger Bacon
I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon. -- David Lynch
I'm not sure how healthy bacon is in general, but I know it's incredibly delicious. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. -- Doug Larson
I unfortunately still crave chicken McNuggets and bacon, which is the meat candy of the world. -- Katy Perry
You know, it's hard to beat bacon at anytime of day. But I also am a big fan of corned beef hash. -- Nick Offerman
You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke. -- Bernie Mac
I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest. -- Wayne Rooney
Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a twist, like lemon ricotta pancakes or bacon that's baked instead of fried. -- Hugh Jackman
My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea. -- Gary Oldman
I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can. -- Anne Burrell
Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good. In fact, one day I'm going to come up with a room deodorizer that smells like bacon and onions. It's a fabulous smell. -- Paula Deen
My wife is a terrific Southern cook. My favorite of all the great things she cooks is 'trash potatoes.' That's mashed potatoes with sour cream, bacon, cheddar cheese, and horseradish. It's a total gut bomb. -- Mike Vogel
If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound. -- Tom Waits
When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different. -- Maya Angelou
You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean. -- Rand Paul
I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time. -- Alexandra Guarnaschelli
I work out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday; take Thursday off; then I work out Friday and Saturday. So sometimes I'll eat whatever I want on Thursday, like a big breakfast of pancakes and bacon and eggs and stuff. You can eat a big, hearty breakfast because you're going to burn off most of it during the day anyway. -- Mark Wahlberg
I hope your bacon burns. -- Diana Wynne Jones
Today's pig is tomorrows bacon! -- Hunter S. Thompson
Canadian bacon isn't bacon. It's ham. -- Bill Maher
Never fry bacon when you're naked. -- Richard Jeni
Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs. -- Mark Twain
But whoever heard of enchanted bacon anyway? -- Diana Wynne Jones
Porkchops and bacon, my two favorite animals. -- Homer
I'd be vegetarian if bacon grew on trees -- Matt Groening
Iâ??m happier than a pig eating bacon! -- Daniel Handler
I actually get quite sad when I smell bacon. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
The only thing more enjoyable than chocolate, is bacon. -- Jeffrey Steingarten
Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks! -- Patricia C. Wrede
I'll tell you what can make bacon better... nothing. -- Chelsea Handler
There are people that are vegetarians that love bacon. -- Jim Gaffigan
I'd really like to promote my increasing consumption of bacon. -- Jim Gaffigan
Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. -- Jasper Fforde
I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. -- Jim Gaffigan
Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert. -- George Takei
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney. -- George Herbert
I love bacon, but I don't think we need it on everything. -- Anthony Bourdain
When you have bacon in your mouth, it doesn't matter who's president. -- Louis C. K.
I didn't eat pork either. Except bacon, of course. Everyone eats bacon. -- Tarryn Fisher
Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear. -- Aesop
Slap some bacon on a biscuit and let's go! We're burnin' daylight! -- John Wayne
Even apocalypse looks less dire when viewed over a plate of bacon. -- Stephanie Stamm
Look a pig in its eyes, and understand the truth behind bacon. -- Mango Wodzak
Can you deep fry the bacon? Oh how I wish you would... -- Greg Behrendt
The world is split into two halves: the bacon, and the bacon eaters. -- Nick Offerman
I can't hear the phrase 'Bay of Pigs invasion' without thinking of bacon." -- John Alejandro King
If I'm feeling crazy, I'll make some bacon because I'm obsessed with bacon. -- Devon Windsor

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