Well Quotes

"For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you"

Judy Garland, Actress

"I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"I love to doubt as well as know"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

"So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"I would say I'm a nice person, and I take pride in the fact that I treat everyone really well, so there's no reason for anyone to ever come at me because I only want the best for everybody else"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"He who obtains the Word of the Lord easily, and keeps it with all his soul, will be able to live well even in the midst of troubles"

Clement of Alexandra, Theologian

"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true"

William J. Clinton, President

"Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to"

Alexis Bledel, Actress

"A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing"

Herodotus, Historian

"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

"America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard"

Jesse Owens, Athlete

"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well"

Oliver Herford, Author

"We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"People always ask me, "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Well, I don't have an alibi"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends"

James Laughlin, Poet

"I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention"

James Laughlin, Poet

"That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever"

Christo, Artist

"Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction"

Bobby Darin, Musician

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