Well Quotes

"I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now"

Marcus Allen, Athlete

"If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review"

Robin Hayes, Politician

"It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity"

Russell Lynes, Critic

"Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters"

Marc Morial, Politician

"Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience"

James Brown, Musician

"Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency"

Robert C. Solomon, Educator

"I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience"

Kurt Loder, Journalist

"This is not to be cocky, but, I go over real well at Comic-Con. I've done quite a few Comic-Cons, and I enjoy the hell out of them. They are so much fun, and so bizarre. I've done the FX Show in Florida, Wizard-World in Chicago, Comic-Con in San Diego, Wonder-Con in San Francisco, the Comic-Con in New York, and I've done them numerous times"

Kristen Bell, Actress

"The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms"

H. G. Bohn

"I didn't write anything until I was well over 30"

Penelope Lively, Author

"When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?"

Ethel Barrymore, Actress

"Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem"

Jonathan Coe, Novelist

"My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"On the other hand, I'm very tolerant as well. I expect that everybody can play what they want. I'm only not tolerant when it comes to myself and what is presented on my album that I have to listen to for the rest of my life"

Eberhard Weber, Musician

"You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers"

James Wolfe, Soldier

"To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool"

Marc Newson, Designer

"The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe"

David Fincher, Director

"Well I was always a hustler... I ran numbers; I wasn't a stick up kid, but I was a fence for them. I used to sell weed; and was kicked out of Music and Art for that"

Kurtis Blow, Musician

"The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"Where we can compete on merit, we do very well"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

"I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me that there were no contemporary references"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars"

Steve Guttenberg, Actor

"I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders"

Walter Cronkite, Journalist

"In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies"

John Gresham Machen, Theologian

"In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well"

Vince McMahon, Entertainer

"But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius"

Marston Morse, Mathematician

"The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

"What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression"

Roy Ayers, Musician

"My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it"

Jerry Pournelle, Journalist

"You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far"

Sophie Marceau, Actress

"One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic"

Jonathan Brandis, Actor

"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group"

James Cameron, Director

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