Well Quotes

"We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well"

Robby Krieger, Musician

"I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway"

Gil Hodges, Athlete

"It was a labor of love and they did really well"

Ian Hunter, Musician

"As long as you're getting along, it's nice to work with someone you know well"

Luke Wilson, Actor

"Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them"

Joseph Henry, Scientist

"I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great"

Jonathan Demme, Director

"At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well"

Mats Sundin, Athlete

"And when things are not going well in Toronto, you're going to hear about it. And you're going to say things are not good at all, where it's really not that bad"

Mats Sundin, Athlete

"No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly"

Protagoras, Philosopher

"Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard"

James J. Corbett, Athlete

"He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game"

David Gower, Athlete

"Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well"

Ajay Naidu, Actor

"I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording"

Willa Ford, Musician

"We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, you might as well stay home. I feel real good"

Sterling Marlin, Athlete

"We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum"

Saku Koivu, Athlete

"You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought"

Richard Blackmore, Poet

"It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting"

Patrick Macnee, Actor

"A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk"

Lisa Bonet, Actress

"After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths"

Franco Harris, Athlete

"So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view"

Andrew McCarthy, Actor

"I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head"

Andrew McCarthy, Actor

"Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well"

Alan Cranston, Politician

"One out of every eight Pennsylvanians and one in every 720 people in the United States, as well as one out of every 50 engineers and one out of every four meteorologists has a Penn State degree"

Don Sherwood, Politician

"The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family"

Wilford Brimley, Actor

"This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection"

Paul O'Neill, Politician

"My guide had a copy of Palestine on my last trip to Gaza. He'd bring it out and show people what I was trying to do. That usually went over pretty well"

Joe Sacco, Journalist

"To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope"

Jack Layton, Politician

"What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone"

Aron Ralston, Celebrity

"When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down. Because when you're wearing prosthetic makeup, of course, you have to really move your face a lot more to convey things through the makeup"

Warwick Davis, Actor

"Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles"

Taylor Hackford, Director

"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk"

Paul Sarbanes, Politician

"The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't"

Mo Rocca, Writer

"One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York"

Mike Judge, Producer

"I put the storyboard down and came back to it like two weeks later and saw that I had written 'Butt-Head' next to the picture, and it kind of made me laugh and I thought, Well, might as well go for every laugh you can get"

Mike Judge, Producer

"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class"

Marcy Kaptur, Politician

"The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people"

Lydia Sigourney, Poet

"It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity"

John Newcombe, Athlete

"We all had our reservations about possibly overdoing it but, you know, the script was great. Basically it stuck to the formula that worked for the first two movies, and for that reason I think this works as well"

Jason Biggs, Actor

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