Well Quotes

"On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years"

Judith Krantz, Novelist

"I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine"

Judith Krantz, Novelist

"Later, I became the manager for Amelia Earhart, until, well, you know"

Joseph Force Crater, Judge

"Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable"

James Rouse, Businessman

"The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from"

Edith Rogers, Politician

"In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way"

Bryan Robson, Athlete

"I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months I have been in the best form in quite a while"

Shane Warne, Athlete

"If he can't do it with Ferrari, well, he can't do it"

John Surtees, Athlete

"I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this"

Norman Lear, Producer

"Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved"

Henry Mayhew, Journalist

"Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you"

Harry Shearer, Actor

"Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path"

Harriet Harman, Politician

"Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process"

Martin McGuinness, Politician

"Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well"

Mario Lopez, Actor

"Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating"

Jim Coleman, Actor

"If my training goes well and according to plan I feel that I am capable of a top 8 finish in Athens. It will be a very difficult and technical course which will be to my advantage"

Jonathan Brown, Athlete

"We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened"

Travis Barker, Musician

"Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well"

Hunter Tylo, Actress

"We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back"

Melina Mercouri, Actress

"I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well"

Lou Gramm, Musician

"I go to the gym five days a week and I have a personal trainer. I am on a strict diet, which is kind of hard to keep up with on the road, but I stick to it as well as I can"

Lou Gramm, Musician

"This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation, scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades"

Elliot Richardson, Lawyer

"But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again"

Elliot Richardson, Lawyer

"If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story"

Kate Smith, Musician

"I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well"

David Gest, Celebrity

"Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people"

Cynthia McKinney, Politician

"I am a great admirer of Sen. Frist, who is a nationally known heart surgeon and well known in Nashville as a great family man who has dedicated his life to helping others and, in that regard, he has followed in his father's footsteps"

John Jay Hooker, Businessman

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth"

William Jennings Bryant

"Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally"

Harry Houdini, Entertainer

"I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision"

George Ryan, Politician

"Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well"

Yvonne Strahovski, Actress

"I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well"

Yannick Noah, Athlete

"There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight"

Vaclav Havel, Leader

"I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well"

Steve Hackett, Writer

"I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere"

Sharon Olds, Poet

"I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is"

Pat Roberts, Politician

"The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany"

Markus Wolf, Public Servant

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