Well Quotes

"It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant"

Jennifer Connelly, Actress

"We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks"

Jim Cramer, Businessman

"New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend"

John Lawson, Explorer

"Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s"

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet

"Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors"

Harry Seidler, Architect

"I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought about it all the time. I never thought it would actually happen"

Lisa Marie Presley, Musician

"I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination"

Jay Alan Sekulow, Lawyer

"I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college"

Elliott Carter, Composer

"My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia,' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.'"

Geoffrey Rush, Actor

"And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives"

Edward Dahlberg, Novelist

"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism"

Christian Lacroix, Designer

"I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally"

John Ratzenberger, Actor

"I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been"

Dave Matthews, Musician

"Benji usually tries to match his hair with his underwear, and you know how he had the pink hair for a while well we caught him in a pink thong one day!"

Joel Madden, Musician

"The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects"

James Lind, Scientist

"I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?"

Eric San, Musician

"Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things"

Channing Pollock, Actor

"Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is"

David Allan Coe, Musician

"Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician"

Ethel Merman, Musician

"The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives"

Ian Botham, Athlete

"I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well"

Caroline Corr, Musician

"You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough"

Edward W. Howe

"There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope"

Edward W. Howe

"In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone"

Gertrude Jekyll, Celebrity

"Well I am from Annapolis Maryland. I went to High school in Baltimore, but I grew up in Annapolis. It was a cute town. We lived on a waterfront community. It was good, even though I don't really fit the preppy boater kind of style"

Christian Siriano, Designer

"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere"

Constance Baker Motley, Activist

"My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s"

Colin Firth, Actor

"I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well"

Eva Mendes, Actress

"Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger"

Casey Kasem, Actor

"You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well"

Carrie Fisher, Actress

"When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well"

James Lee Burke, Author

"If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy"

Charles Manson, Criminal

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