Well Quotes

"There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word"

Griffin Dunne, Actor

"Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats"

Constance Baker Motley, Activist

"I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well"

Murray Walker, Entertainer

"In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better"

John B. S. Haldane, Scientist

"I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative"

Lisa Marie Presley, Musician

"It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'"

Charles Simmons, Politician

"We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity"

Boris Yeltsin, President

"The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud"

Charlie Watts, Musician

"Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger"

Casey Kasum

"Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had"

David Beckham, Athlete

"I will stay very focused on my responsibilities as Secretary of Commerce and the economy's doing well. I mean, you asked about some of the challenges that we have or what is going on in the world and you know I, I'm pleased to report that the economy is doing extremely well"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"You wear nothing but you wear it so well"

Dave Matthews, Musician

"Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy"

Izabella Scorupco, Actress

"I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way"

David Strathairn, Actor

"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"

Colin Firth, Actor

"I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree"

Colin Firth, Actor

"Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities"

Elliott Carter, Composer

"Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"Cause I was such a novice and thank God that Sarah was as seasoned as she was because she was really a great leader in that regard in the sense that she would communicate really well with the crew"

Charisma Carpenter, Actress

"I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work"

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Actress

"By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that"

Camilla Belle, Actress

"Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must"

Carl Van Vechten, Writer

"National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services"

Corazon Aquino, President

"Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements"

Christy Turlington, Model

"I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested"

Charisma Carpenter, Actress

"Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time"

Barry Levinson, Director

"Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763"

Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian

"Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth"

Alvin Adams, Businessman

"I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it"

Bai Ling, Actress

"Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth"

Anna Friel, Actress

"I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble"

Mary McDonnell, Actress

"In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction"

John George Nicolay, Writer

"Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us"

Eric Brown, Writer

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