Well Quotes

"I never liked filming the ads, but they were so well received"

"The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones"

Kevin J. Anderson, Author

"I am an artist and a political being as well"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known"

Richard Briers, Actor

"The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained"

Tony Randall, Actor

"I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey"

Theodore Sturgeon, Writer

"Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away"

Thomas Beecham, Composer

"Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes"

Will Cuppy, Writer

"Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries"

Ronnie Montrose, Musician

"Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist"

Ronald Harwood, Playwright

"Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross"

Stephen Stills, Musician

"Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years"

Keith Carradine, Actor

"Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them"

Moshe Katsav, Statesman

"My wife read Narc as well and was really into it"

Ray Liotta, Actor

"Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio"

Martin Milner, Actor

"While living I want to live well"

Geronimo, Statesman

"Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege"

Mark Rydell, Director

"I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did"

Jo Brand, Comedian

"By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout"

Jo Brand, Comedian

"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well"

William Osler, Scientist

"When you start off a new tournament, you want to do well"

Amelie Mauresmo, Athlete

"And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language"

Sophie Marceau, Actress

"The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa"

Lewis Tappan, Businessman

"The Anti-Slavery public have generously responded to our appeal, and sent the means to enable us to fit them out well, to pay their passages, supply them with many useful articles and give the Missionaries money to sustain themselves for a while"

Lewis Tappan, Businessman

"One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics"

Lewis Tappan, Businessman

"If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens"

Grandma Moses, Artist

"Yeah, well, I finally stopped smoking for good"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well"

LaToya London, Musician

"You know how bad my voice sounds - well it feels just as bad"

George Herman, Journalist

"I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act"

Burt Reynolds, Actor

"Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority"

Barber B. Conable, Jr.

"Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself"

Eberhard Weber, Musician

"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well"

Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator

"It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed"

Walter Lord, Author

"There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well"

Frank Scott, Poet

"I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better"

Amelie Mauresmo, Athlete

"Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, but I understand that you get in more than seven minutes"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal"

Diana Vreeland, Editor

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