Well Quotes

"Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed"

Edwidge Danticat, Author

"I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father"

Augusten Burroughs, Writer

"I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience"

Augusten Burroughs, Writer

"I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well"

George Shearing, Musician

"If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology"

Miguel de Icaza, Scientist

"Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my back is up against the wall, I will say vicious things"

Howard Stern, Entertainer

"Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well"

Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist

"I don't know if we'd have been as dominant as we were last season. The new things, the new ideas the manager brought in everyone took them on board so well. He is special"

Frank Lampard, Athlete

"It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields"

David Douglass, Physicist

"Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting"

Charley Pride, Athlete

"It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different"

Alan Vega, Musician

"I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can"

Aaron Eckhart, Actor

"Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer"

Angela Davis, Activist

"A well begun is half ended"

A. C. Benson, Author

"The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree"

Anna Kournikova, Athlete

"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's"

Billy Wilder, Director

"It's a job - someone's gotta kiss Jennifer Aniston. 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

"Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks"

Mike Lowry, Politician

"We became good friends with Galactic as well"

Mike Lowry, Politician

"Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily"

Geoffrey Chaucer, Poet

"The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business"

Julie Walters, Actress

"Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success"

Julie Benz, Actress

"Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have"

Walter Pater, Critic

"I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies"

Peter Lynch, Businessman

"The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved"

John Bardeen, Scientist

"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally"

Calvin Trillin, Journalist

"As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time"

Maureen O'Hara, Actress

"The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else"

Tom Wilkinson, Actor

"Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it"

Scott Wolf, Actor

"It's a big part of what we do - we test our movies extensively. I'm always there myself. It's sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it's a version of the movie that's not working particularly well"

Bobby Farrelly, Director

"If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort"

William Gibson, Writer

"One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit"

Margaret Cavendish, Writer

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