Well Quotes

"We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that"

William Weld, Politician

"Well for six years during Cheers I couldn't get another job"

Woody Harrelson, Actor

"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare"

Fred Allen, Comedian

"I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

"However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted"

Hideki Tojo, Soldier

"Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means"

Thomas Hooker, Leader

"The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters"

May Sarton, Poet

"The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child"

Layne Staley, Musician

"A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized"

Fred Allen, Comedian

"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well"

Fred Frith, Composer

"Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being"

Luis Barragan, Architect

"I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame"

Howard Coble, Politician

"We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it"

Ring Lardner, Comedian

"Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time"

Joan Jett, Musician

"Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?"

Mort Walker, Artist

"If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it"

Joan Chen, Actress

"In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame"

James Beattie

"We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it"

Junius

"I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"When the government is handed over to the Iraqi Council on 30 June, many have declared, oh, the Americans must never leave because civil unrest may erupt. Well, I agree, we cannot abruptly depart, but Iraq needs to step up to the plate on 30 June"

Howard Coble, Politician

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