Well Quotes

"Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Doing a thing well is often a waste of time"

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

"I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I"

Claudette Colbert, Actress

"So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either"

Guido van Rossum, Scientist

"The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body"

Daniel D. Palmer, Celebrity

"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case"

Helen Clark, Statesman

"But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective"

Suzanne Vega, Musician

"You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

"My way of playing is very different and Karpov plays very differently as well"

Vladimir Kramnik, Celebrity

"You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out"

Al Gore, Vice President

"One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you"

Philip Pullman, Writer

"Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid"

Joan Chen, Actress

"Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn't use my name"

Jim Sullivan, Musician

"If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat"

Geoffrey Boycott, Athlete

"On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success"

Martin Van Buren, President

"Time spent on hiring is time well spent"

Robert Half, Businessman

"I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing"

Martina Hingis, Athlete

"I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me"

William Howard Taft, President

"Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents"

Joseph Heller, Novelist

"The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"Well unfortunately I didn't work with Andre much. But rap is a strong presence in the culture and anyone is going to grateful for its appearance, grateful for any kind of music that has the kind of effect that rap has had on us all"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru"

Alberto Fujimori, Statesman

"The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you"

Edward F. Halifax, Statesman

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