Well Quotes

"I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well"

Mackenzie Crook, Actor

"I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within"

Eudora Welty, Author

"A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within"

Eudora Welty, Author

"Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating"

Eriq La Salle, Actor

"You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd"

Anthony Hope, Writer

"Studios were just run differently. There really was a head of a studio. There were people who loved their studios. Who worked for their studios and were loaned out to other people and everybody sort of got a piece. Well now there's a handful now"

Sharon Gless, Actress

"Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl"

Daisy Ashford, Writer

"Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away"

Ted Rall, Cartoonist

"This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"I have certain strong interests that fill my life as well"

Loretta Swit, Actress

"Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough"

Sophie Ellis Bextor, Musician

"Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University"

Patricia Clarkson, Actress

"No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year"

Sebastian Bach, Musician

"The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well"

Rick Danko, Musician

"No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind"

Donald E. Westlake, Writer

"I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV"

Dan Fogelberg, Musician

"So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens"

David Zucker, Director

"Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice"

Ani DiFranco, Musician

"Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well"

Jim Otto, Athlete

"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

"When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well"

J. Michael Straczynski, Producer

"Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win"

Ivan Lendl, Athlete

"To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well"

Rem Koolhaas, Architect

"When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business"

Lucille Roybal-Allard

"This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started"

Nick Cannon, Musician

"I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today"

Tony Bennett, Musician

"I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out"

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Actress

"I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever"

Ralph Kiner, Athlete

"You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is known a stochastic volatility model. This is a model where the volatility as well as the underlying asset price moves around in an unpredictable way"

John C. Hull, Professor

"We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I think we can heal people before they become chronically sick. I believe our thoughts make us sick"

Marie Osmond, Musician

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