Well Quotes

"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

"It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God"

Warren Jeffs, Criminal

"Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable"

Vance Havner

"I think we have to be very careful when we toss around terms like 'cut health care costs.' We would do very well to expect a cut in the rate of increase"

David Obey, Politician

"But I said wait a minute, I'm going to get a computer, I can do this as well as anybody else. So I did some studying so I knew what kind of boards to get to put a PC together. But there was a guy sitting there with Apple. I said, 'what's that?' and he goes, 'Apple with 128k, it's all built into the box,' and I bought it. That was my first computer"

Sinbad, Comedian

"The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction"

Sheldon Jackson, Politician

"It was another day to go to work, and try to play and play well"

Ray Nitschke, Athlete

"Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female"

Rose Tremain, Novelist

"It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London, they get buses and we'll get three or four thousand fans come down. They'll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team"

Claudio Reyna, Athlete

"My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?"

Robbie Coltraine, Actor

"I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust"

Cory Doctorow, Journalist

"I have a great story to tell... and I tell it well. No holds barred"

Aishwarya Rai, Actress

"Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!"

Mary-Kate Olsen, Actress

"Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different"

Mark Rydell, Director

"Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved"

Valentino Rossi, Athlete

"A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit"

Ted Lindsay, Athlete

"Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset"

Salma Hayek, Actress

"To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences"

Roy Wood, Musician

"Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well"

Joe Murray, Artist

"Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it"

Peter Marshall, Clergyman

"My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs"

Richard Marx, Musician

"No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in"

Tommy Chong, Actor

"I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too"

Hugo Weaving, Actor

"There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville"

Hernando Cortes, Leader

"What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it"

Harry Stack Sullivan, Psychologist

"Dobie was so well written and so ahead of its time"

Dwayne Hickman, Actor

"I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it"

Margaret Halsey, Author

"Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings"

Jonathan Carroll, Author

"So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me"

Jon Secada, Musician

"Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece"

Siobhan Davies, Dancer

"The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"And those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of the President. And a lot of people don't want to say that. They'll say, God, don't be attacking Obama. Well, this is Obama's deal and it's Obama that's responsible for this fear in America"

Steve Wynn, Businessman

"We'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

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