Well Quotes

"I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring"

"Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?"

Jay-Z, Musician

"So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well"

Neville Marriner, Musician

"I think you have to refill the well at some point"

Skeet Ulrich, Actor

"People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself"

Black Elk, Leader

"But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'"

John Sayles, Director

"For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"Raymond Floyd. The man knows how to control situations. He was experienced. He didn't let me get overly excited; he kept me in check. It allowed me to free myself up, and I played really well with him"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin"

Eddie Campbell, Artist

"As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million"

George Wald, Scientist

"When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"The record was only released in the UK, and then when the idea for the remixed album came about, which was an idea that I've had for the longest time, I said this would be great song to remix as well, and so we did it"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians"

Horace Walpole, Author

"And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the late night underground gigs as well because it's always around those times that there was a hot song, either on the radio or in the clubs, it would just be simultaneous"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up"

Eddie Campbell, Artist

"The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well"

David Cronenberg, Director

"We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya"

Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman

"As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity"

David Ricardo, Economist

"At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever"

Brian May, Musician

"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"These girls come; they last one season; they're completely used up and dried out and sent back home. That's not how to make a life. I want a girl to come in knowing full well what she's getting into and being able to deal and make decisions that will create a career"

Carol Alt, Model

"Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"You must look into people as well as at them"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her"

Michael Jackson, Musician

"I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: "Oh well," and I went back to smoking again, and that was better"

Benny Hill, Comedian

"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet"

Keith Richards, Musician

"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man"

John Adams, President

"If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name"

A. A. Milne, Author

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