Well Quotes

"While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well"

Paul Harris, Entertainer

"Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion"

Norma McCorvey, Celebrity

"They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well"

Frankie Avalon, Actor

"Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks"

Norman Granz, Musician

"There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs"

Donnie Yen, Actor

"We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia"

Julie Bishop, Politician

"It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear"

Ryan Reynolds, Actor

"So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well"

Rainer W. Fassbinder

"And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too"

Patricia Hewitt, Politician

"Well I don't know because I don't have a real relationship with the industry"

Danny Glover, Actor

"Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more"

Victor Garber, Actor

"Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days"

Evan Parker, Musician

"Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?"

Sharon Gless, Actress

"A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream"

Robin Trower, Musician

"Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision"

J. Michael Straczynski, Producer

"Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another"

William Gurnall, Author

"My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I've found my prince"

Joan Collins, Actress

"According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it"

Jay Leno, Comedian

"I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well"

James Taylor, Musician

"The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world"

Kenneth Grahame, Novelist

"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books"

Elizabeth Moon, Author

"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones"

Charlotte Bronte, Novelist

"It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray"

Aesop, Author

"But so long as we can keep this crew of fantastic people together and can continue to make real breakthrough films in this category, as well as characters that stay true to what we've done in this first film, I'd be more than happy to be a part of it"

Brandon Routh, Actor

"Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power"

Gray Davis, Politician

"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful"

Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress

"First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"The well of true wit is truth itself"

George Meredith, Novelist

"The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well"

Donal Logue, Actor

"Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle"

Mark Kelly, Musician

"But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people"

David Bowie, Musician

"I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage"

Gerald R. Ford, President

"Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about"

John Desmond Bernal, Scientist

"I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

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