Well Quotes

"I wasn't raised with money, so I had to get used to having it. I think I've adjusted to it pretty well"

"Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well"

"Brenda did some little vocal arrangements for us and she got to sing as well. So, we're happy to be able to work together and that's another reason why we look forward to doing more of these"

Rick Derringer, Musician

"When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well"

Randy Neugebauer, Politician

"Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength"

Karen Armstrong, Writer

"Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent"

Young Buck, Musician

"Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police"

Tony Greig, Athlete

"When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether"

Marian Anderson, Musician

"We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility"

Judith Martin, Author

"Well who's black and what is a black person?"

Pam Grier, Actress

"Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up"

Mary Tyler Moore, Actress

"The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa"

Claudio Hummes

"My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage"

Joshua Chamberlain, Soldier

"Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!"

John Harvey Kellogg, Businessman

"I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored"

Studs Terkel, Journalist

"Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression"

Stuart Symington, Businessman

"The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion"

Robert Redford, Actor

"I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well"

John Keegan, Historian

"Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

"Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets"

Larry Hagman, Actor

"I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do"

Tom Selleck, Actor

"Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, have worked together so well with our chairman and the chairman of the full committee to address the issues of housing for our soldiers"

Robin Hayes, Politician

"I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now"

Richard Simmons, Celebrity

"I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world"

Paul Kane, Writer

"But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was because we were sued. Well that's what they say. It was never about that"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well"

William Gilbert, Composer

"You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time"

Suzanne Farrell, Dancer

"So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching"

Steve Spurrier, Coach

"We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well"

Jennifer Beals, Actress

"Certainly from the rehearsal process with Elizabeth I think it was very clear. Well let me start again. We were initially supposed to be more combative"

Jennifer Beals, Actress

"The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races"

Robert McChesney, Critic

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