Well Quotes

"I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well"

Vladimir Kramnik, Celebrity

"Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

"I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous"

Vladimir Kramnik, Celebrity

"Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil"

Robert T. Bakker, Scientist

"So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be"

Frances McDormand, Actress

"All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries"

Jeremy Northam, Actor

"The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform"

Gerard Butler, Actor

"Well I think effects are tools"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty"

James D. Watson, Scientist

"Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated"

James D. Watson, Scientist

"If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts"

Frank Gaffney, Writer

"If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't "sail" anyway. Send it back for further thought"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"We can seize this time and do it our way and in the process be proud of ourselves and prosper as well"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that's your fault"

Adam Jones, Musician

"It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization"

Agnes Repplier, Writer

"Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that"

Jean Rostand, Scientist

"I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well"

Alexander the Great, Leader

"Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained"

Jerome K. Jerome, Author

"I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well"

Zooey Deschanel, Actress

"I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don't wanna do the same thing over and over again because that's, well, first of all that's no fun"

Zooey Deschanel, Actress

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