Lauren Bacall Quotes

No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is not on the Earth, that is dead.

Lauren Bacall

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• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Money
  • More
  • Ever

• I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • She
  • Know
  • Amazing

• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Forever

• And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Different
  • Love

• We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • World
  • Truth
  • Search

• One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Life
  • Men
  • Picture

• Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Writing

• I believe that all nations - strong and weak alike - must adhere to standards that govern the use of force. I - like any head of state - reserve the right to act unilaterally if necessary to defend my nation. Nevertheless, I am convinced that adhering to standards, international standards, strengthens those who do, and isolates and weakens those who don't.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Strong

• There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Age

• Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes. As it was, lacking their original letters, I half suspected the compiler of having asked leading questions, or of having edited the correspondence in corroboration of what he had latently resolved to see.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Broken

• It is a funny view of the world that a book can cause riots.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Book
  • Funny

• ...ingratitude is more common than you might think.

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • World
  • Real

• Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to overcome the things most people don't have to think about. Brushing my teeth was very difficult because of the noise of the brush.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • People
  • Up
  • Children

• You do get into a groove, which is great, when you get to act with the same people a lot. Like with Caroline Catz - it's like a duet: you're like a duo jamming together.

  

  Martin Clunes
  • People
  • Great
  • Together

• I wish it didn't take soooooo much to get physically to where I need to be.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Wish
  • Need
  • I Wish

• I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.

  

  Chad Everett
  • Different
  • Feelings
  • Acting

• That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Fashion

• No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is not on the Earth, that is dead.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Earth
  • Dead
  • Legend