If there was a pause in a conversation with anyone, you could always light a cigarette, or if a man lit a cigarette for you, you could look up. It's the most dramatic thing in the world because it's intimate, it's suggestive, and that's one of the problems with giving it up, is that it's a very useful tool.
Lauren BacallLife is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.
Lauren BacallI never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.
Lauren BacallYou spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.
Lauren Bacall