Well Quotes

"Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it"

Barack Obama, President

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well"

Alexander Smith, Poet

"Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"Poverty makes you sad as well as wise"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly"

Ivan Turgenev, Novelist

"So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect"

John Dyer, Artist

"Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better"

Miriam Makeba, Musician

"Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players"

Larry Bird, Coach

"Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun"

Flip Wilson, Comedian

"If you're wanting glamorous or really beautiful or really sexy, well then, I wasn't really the one, but I could do all of that. You could just get really lost in that kind of image"

Kim Novak, Actress

"For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way"

Kim Novak, Actress

"The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"You don't want to come out with anything that's wrong, of course, in a scientific, you know, a major scientific announcement, and so you're being so careful trying to check, well maybe it's this, maybe it's that, you're looking at every possible thing"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"It is well for one to know more than he says"

Plautus, Playwright

"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep"

George Byron, Poet

"The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

"'He means well' is useless unless he does well"

Plautus, Playwright

"It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

"At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim"

Elias Canetti, Author

"The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well"

Elias Canetti, Author

"Well we'd just seen Gerry. I think he wanted somebody who had that authority and was handsome. The thing is, he's a big hunk isn't he? All I can say, if you look at his chat line, or the Phantom website, it's quite worrying. Because the girls really seem to love him"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don't. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I've broken my right knee many times and it doesn't hurt a bit"

Terry Fox, Athlete

"Most shows, you really have to force it. And everybody's nervous, and the network is nervous, and they've all got their notepads out, and they're all going to give notes on what they think is funny, and everybody's trying to spin their jokes, and this was so - the script was so good that we didn't have to really do anything, and it made it so easy for us to do well"

Will Arnett, Actor

"If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out"

Edwin Markham, Poet

"So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws"

Ayn Rand, Writer

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