Lauren Bacall Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Winning is everything in Hollywood.
-
I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
-
My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
-
The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
-
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
-
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
-
The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
-
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
-
Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
-
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
-
I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
-
Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
-
If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
-
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
-
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-
I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
-
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
-
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
-
If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.
-
I don't know you, ma'am, and apparently I'm expected to die for you.
-
Something we often struggle with on pictures is the right way to shoot live-action elements that are for an environment that's very complicated from a lighting standpoint. An example is a starship flying through an environment that's constantly changing.
-
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
-
The group who really could benefit from more protein is not fit young gym-goers but older people, who seem to be at much greater risk of protein deficiency.
-
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn’t exactly a study of life.
