Well Quotes

"And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years"

Joan Collins, Actress

"But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries"

Paul Harris, Entertainer

"I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well"

Geraldine Ferraro, Politician

"Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist"

Kenneth Noland, Artist

"Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated"

Jennifer Aniston, Actress

"There's been a lot of discussion about NASA culture and changing that. I think our culture has always been one of trying to do a very difficult job and do it well"

Mark Kelly, Musician

"Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque"

Martin Mull, Actor

"It just comes down to taste at the end of the day, and that's something you can't really analyze. Yeah, I think to have it all there is basically best, regardless of whether there's hiss there as well"

Sean Booth, Musician

"Then finally I said, 'Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want to be consulted. I want to know what they're doing and who's involved. And I want to see the space.' So they took me to see it, and then I realized it was major! All these red flags on the Rue de Rivoli with my name on them right by the Louvre!"

Kate Moss, Model

"I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods"

Joan Collins, Actress

"If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage"

Ritchie Blackmore, Musician

"It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore"

William Devane, Actor

"The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight"

Golda Meir, Leader

"There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason"

John Astin, Actor

"The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist"

Theophile Gautier, Poet

"Generally I don't care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching"

Mark Spitz, Athlete

"Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world"

Charlotte Bronte, Novelist

"I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody"

Rod Steiger, Actor

"And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully"

Rod Steiger, Actor

"Well they're very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There's concern about the status of asylum seekers in Malaysia generally, but there's concern about the status of the 800 to be sent"

Julie Bishop, Politician

"Well no, I think we won't have that problem but as far as paparazzi I'm speaking, I will deal with that"

Brandon Routh, Actor

"The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"Well I've written four beauty books as well"

Joan Collins, Actress

"We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more"

John Hench, Artist

"Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"Well I think that's probably one of a few, where I grew up in the City of New York, it's got a lot of energy, my parents are Irish-American so there was a bit of yelling going on in my house but it seemed normal"

John McEnroe, Athlete

"I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made"

John M. Ford, Writer

"And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"We have made great strides, but somehow we've got to create a climate so that everybody can do well, not just some"

Alveda King, Clergyman

"It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems"

Maimonides, Philosopher

"All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers"

Maimonides, Philosopher

"When we finally got to play that and we had a great show there, well I can tell it was pretty awesome. Y'know, we probably did bigger festivals since then; we probably headlined bigger festivals since then, but I will always remember that"

Kerry King, Musician

"Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well"

Ice T, Musician

"If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare"

John Lithgow, Actor

"The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism"

H. P. Blavatsky, Philosopher

"I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well"

Jennifer Aniston, Actress

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