Well Quotes

"A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny"

"I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment.""

Andy Warhol, Artist

"There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well"

Linda M. Godwin, Astronaut

"Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

"It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure"

Imran Khan, Politician

"I was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"I don't know if this is why everything has worked so well and I'm not sure I'd recommend this kind of thinking to anyone else, but I've always known I'd be successful in acting. I have certainly worked for it"

Jennifer Lawrence, Actress

"Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much"

Alejandro Amenabar, Director

"I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment"

Peter Steele, Musician

"The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with"

Paul Muldoon, Poet

"The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life"

Nuno Bettencourt, Musician

"God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy"

Marian Burros

"The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition"

Israel Zangwill, Novelist

"Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well"

P. G. Wodehouse, Writer

"I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker"

Sean Connery, Actor

"To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought"

P. G. Wodehouse, Writer

"Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

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