Well Quotes

"It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked"

Anna Wickham, Poet

"Yes, well, you are quite camp, so I guess that he could see the point of you"

Diana Rigg, Actress

"In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat"

Nusrat F. A. Khan

"I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped"

Sugar Ray Leonard, Athlete

"No one could have ever dreamed about how well the show would do"

Sean Hayes, Actor

"We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire"

Sam Wood, Director

"The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work"

Keith Haring, Artist

"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too"

David Storey, Novelist

"My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story"

Ang Lee, Director

"The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well"

Barbara Ehrenreich, Writer

"Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out"

Piers Corbyn, Scientist

"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself"

Peter O'Toole, Actor

"I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage"

Micky Dolenz, Actor

"I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends"

Josh Charles, Actor

"Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where"

Robert Bridges, Poet

"I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something"

Bob Weir, Musician

"Paul Lambert has assembled a great bunch of lads and training has been going very well. I am just desperate to get into the team and do my best for the club"

Kenny Dalglish, Athlete

"When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer"

Julia Margaret Cameron, Photographer

"You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead"

Richard Grimes

"I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct"

Renny Harlin, Director

"Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well"

Naveen Jain, Businessman

"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well"

Nathalie Sarraute, Lawyer

"There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well"

Orhan Pamuk, Novelist

"Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency"

Lewis Thompson Preston, Businessman

"You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders"

Howie Carr, Author

"Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success"

Val Kilmer, Actor

"If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability"

Vannevar Bush, Scientist

"I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent"

Taylor Hackford, Director

"Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts"

Shannon Lucid, Astronaut

"Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad"

Ruby Wax, Comedian

"I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever"

Peter Krause, Actor

"The best music of any era lasts well, I think"

Peter Asher, Musician

"I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment"

P. J. Harvey, Musician

"Well I knew JD could go out there and knock the guy out because in training I told JD all the time that he has height, reach and size and he has the power. JD has such a right hand, his right hand is like wow, oh man it is bad"

Michael Moorer, Athlete

"Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to"

Margaret Whiting, Musician

"To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in"

Mainbocher, Designer

"Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds"

Norman McLaren, Artist

"Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work"

Michael Novak, Philosopher

"Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage"

Laura Schlessinger, Writer

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