Well Quotes

"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity"

Abraham Cowley, Poet

"Well the appeals happening because we believe the certification process uh, hasn't worked out the way it should, that there hasn't been substantial evidence to support their certification"

Tom Udall, Politician

"She walks well, she looks good. Let's see how she kisses"

Strom Thurmond, Politician

"This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great and very specific. It all came together well"

Sean William Scott, Actor

"Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress"

Sarah Polley, Actress

"Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well"

Roberta Williams, Designer

"Gene sometimes... well, he has his dream list"

Paul Stanley, Musician

"My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians"

Walter Becker, Musician

"You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts"

Julie Taymor, Director

"I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain"

William Standish Knowles, Scientist

"I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer"

Stephen Collins, Actor

"Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"We know well enough that if we repeal this law and give nothing for it, the people of this country will regard it as a total demonetization of silver, which it will be, so far as this Congress is concerned, without any question"

Richard Parks Bland, Politician

"Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints"

Norman Jewison, Director

"If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs"

Neil Diamond, Musician

"I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard"

Mariel Hemingway, Actress

"Eddie and I are overwhelmed by the amount of lovely well wishes. We are blessed and.... I'm Mrs. Cibrian!"

LeAnn Rimes, Musician

"I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want"

Tom Cruise, Actor

"I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live"

Ryan Phillippe, Actor

"I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music"

James Marsters, Actor

"As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Politician

"Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine"

Sean Penn, Actor

"Right now, it's very difficult to single out one fighter, pound-for-pound, who is the best. Right now, it's very complex. Miguel Cotto, Mayweather and Zab Judah's a good fighter as well"

Roberto Duran, Athlete

"No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie"

Paul Scott, Novelist

"I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready"

Mary Garden

"I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they're aiming for the moon, and that's what counts"

Marvin Hamlisch, Composer

"There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well"

Marlee Matlin, Actress

"I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it"

Mac Davis, Musician

"For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all"

Lactantius, Author

"All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times"

John Woolman, Clergyman

"I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask"

Richard Neal, Politician

"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong"

James Bryce, Diplomat

"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist"

Stewart Alsop, Writer

"See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work"

Robbie Coltrane, Actor

"Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences"

Taylor Dayne, Musician

"I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks"

Richard Grant, Author

"I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much"

Celeste Holm, Actress

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