Well Quotes

"This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove"

Laurel Clark, Astronaut

"Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being"

John Grierson, Director

"A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy"

Marie Curie, Scientist

"A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

"I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

"They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we're watching American news and we're constantly saying, wow, it's not as bad as it is in the United States"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

"Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Its well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman"

William Congreve, Poet

"Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content"

Vinton Cerf, Inventor

"I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices"

Vinton Cerf, Inventor

"There are some very significant changes in the way the fluids are distributed in our body, the way our heart functions initially, and as well as our bone and muscle"

Laurel Clark, Astronaut

"Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured"

Thomas E. Mann, Sociologist

"Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient"

Aldo Leopold, Environmentalist

"My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer"

Mike Myers, Comedian

"Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Character must be kept bright as well as clean"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men"

Arthur Ashe, Athlete

"In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me"

William Congreve, Poet

"I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well"

Robert Pattinson, Actor

"Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well"

James Freeman Clarke, Clergyman

"There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain"

Jim Thome, Athlete

"I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen"

Frankie Avalon, Actor

"I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"Oh, gosh, okay... well, my biggest injury was probably a bone chip in my ankle that required surgery"

Trish Stratus, Entertainer

"I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together"

Uta Hagen, Actress

"I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine"

David Schwimmer, Actor

"Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well"

Inge de Bruijn, Athlete

"I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head"

Cyndi Lauper, Musician

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