Well Quotes

"When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?"

Margery Allingham, Writer

"Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand"

Louise Jameson, Actress

"People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions"

Joan Blades, Businessman

"Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as well as equal rights to all, not just to Saddam's entourage of terrorists"

Jim Gerlach, Politician

"Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well"

Romano Prodi, Statesman

"The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad"

Phil Ochs, Musician

"Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if police numbers are the holy grail. But actually what matters is what those police are doing. It's about how those police are deployed"

Theresa May, Politician

"You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well"

Juan Manuel Fangio, Celebrity

"They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that"

Joshua Slocum, Explorer

"In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland"

Ruud van Nistelrooy, Athlete

"The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well"

Junichiro Koizumi, Statesman

"Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here"

Richard Linklater, Director

"Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World"

Oliver Stone, Director

"A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word"

Nora Roberts, Author

"I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well"

Neil Jordan, Director

"I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing"

Jan Hammer, Musician

"Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry"

James McAvoy, Actor

"Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones"

William Kent, Architect

"A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing"

William Barclay, Theologian

"I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't"

Tom Berenger, Actor

"Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard"

Sherrod Brown, Politician

"I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

"Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need"

Nigel Dennis, Writer

"And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think"

Tina Weymouth, Musician

"I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so widely seen. And neither one of us - well, I think I had hopes it would be, 'cause I really did think it was something special"

Terry Zwigoff, Director

"My kids get everything they want and are raised well"

Suge Knight, Producer

"I came in with my idea of what a cowboy would wear, but then I met some real cowboys and they said that I rode the horses well, shoed the horses, but no good cowboy would be wearing a pair of Levi's. I had to get a good old pair of Wranglers"

Steve Kanaly, Actor

"Though it sold very well, I hated The Edge"

Shelley Berman, Comedian

"Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen"

Robin Yount, Athlete

"I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing"

Ashlee Simpson, Musician

"If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants"

Adam Clarke, Theologian

"The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover"

Ben Harper, Musician

"Of course you know this difference as well as I do, only you failed to draw from it the conclusions for the tactics in Western Europe, at least as far as I am able to judge from your works"

Herman Gorter, Poet

"Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat"

Gloria Swanson, Actress

"I was given a White House - well, you will have to ask the White House that. But I asked to attend the White House briefing because I was, you know, because I wanted to report on the activities there"

Jeff Gannon, Journalist

"We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in that equation every time"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

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