Well Quotes

"I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it"

Theodore Sturgeon, Writer

"In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

"I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work"

Harold Brodkey, Author

"I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it"

Robert Sheckley, Author

"Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well"

Michael York, Actor

"Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers"

Mary Tyler Moore, Actress

"I went along to the audition and I had one page of lines, and I didn't think it went particularly well"

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Model

"I think maybe it is about time for a governor who has created jobs, who's managed a budget, who's led and inspired large organizations, who listens well, and who can drive an agenda"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it"

Kristi Yamaguchi, Athlete

"What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully"

Jo Brand, Comedian

"It's a video release as well so I have to be perfectly honest and go, probably not specifically for DVD, but there are extra bits on it that aren't on anything else, so as exciting as that sounds"

Jo Brand, Comedian

"I don't know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise but yes, I've known Doon for years and John as well but I hadn't met Will before, and he turned out to be a good laugh"

Jo Brand, Comedian

"Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics"

Warren Beatty, Actor

"Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be discussed"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel"

Stephen Lewis, Politician

"Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life"

Tea Leoni, Actress

"As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience"

Victoria Pratt, Actress

"To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature"

Frederick Soddy, Scientist

"One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"Being on a Michael Bay set is... well, it's the only set I've ever been on. But I would imagine there's no set that's run quite like it. It's big, it's loud, it's powerful, it's intense, it's dirty, it's hot, it's sweaty - and it's really exciting. There's never a dull moment; there's never a quiet moment"

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Model

"My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure"

Ron Reagan, Journalist

"Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher education more accessible for all Americans"

Jim Clyburn, Politician

"I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels"

Nicholas Sparks, Author

"I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city"

Michael Arad, Architect

"What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know"

Mary Stuart Masterson, Actress

"Having kids has been great for me. I have two beautiful step- kids, as well as my own new daughter. They've really helped me to keep my feet firmly on the ground, and life is good. I feel like I'm the luckiest guy here"

Matt LeBlanc, Actor

"Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life"

Letitia Landon

"Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior"

William Shenstone, Poet

"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity"

William Godwin, Writer

"My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good"

Paul Kane, Writer

"Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies"

Sophie Marceau, Actress

"Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively"

Richard Simmons, Celebrity

"Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs"

John Doerr, Businessman

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