Well Quotes

"If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now"

"Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page"

Sue Grafton, Novelist

"I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor"

Bobby Farrelly, Director

"It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol"

Xavier Becerra, Politician

"Yes well I've done three movies with Samuel L. Jackson, so I've met him a couple of times already. Well, I see him everyday, but its only on the screen"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"All in all it was a smooth race, the car was very well balanced. I'm very proud to be the first winner here in India"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours"

Julie Benz, Actress

"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return"

Roger Staubach, Athlete

"The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

"Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have a God complex, well this person has a Satan complex. And the doctor chooses to treat him scientifically"

Eriq La Salle, Actor

"Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt"

John Hench, Artist

"I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

"Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now"

Ivan Lendl, Athlete

"As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well"

Jamie Redknapp, Athlete

"Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I'm playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That's really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it"

Hugh Dancy, Actor

"I'm excited about being an owner, it's got my competitive juices going. I'm scared, but excited as well"

Roger Staubach, Athlete

"It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either"

Golda Meir, Leader

"They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me"

Tom Glazer, Musician

"You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets"

Peter Lynch, Businessman

"I'm well into sort of Santiago Calatrava and people like that"

Sean Booth, Musician

"I just feel that after the season that we have to sit down - as well as myself, everybody - and try and look at what gives us the best opportunity to move going forward"

Mike Singletary, Athlete

"When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"Best results are often achieved well before you need a job, by consistently networking so that when you find yourself job-hunting you have a large network to work with"

Erik Qualman, Author

"Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"If each of your time steps is one week long, you are not modeling the stock price terribly well over a one-week time period, because you are saying that there are only two possible outcomes"

John C. Hull, Professor

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