Well Quotes

"I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement"

"Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment"

David Leslie

"It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument"

Dave Edmunds, Musician

"It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy... a girl"

Christopher Knight, Actor

"Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block"

John Tenniel, Artist

"Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year"

Hailee Steinfeld, Actress

"It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known"

Gerry Beckley, Musician

"I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm damn well gonna do it!"

Geri Halliwell, Musician

"Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us"

George Takei, Actor

"I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well"

Fareed Zakaria, Journalist

"Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down"

Scott Baio, Actor

"I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires"

Ray Harryhausen, Director

"I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well"

Michael King, Historian

"Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing"

Matthew Perry, Actor

"Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song"

Nanci Griffith, Musician

"You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins"

Karrie Webb, Athlete

"Generally the younger generation are not hard working. They will have to put in more effort to achieve results in tournaments. most of them can perform well but they cannot deliver when they play abroad"

Jahangir Khan, Athlete

"I'm really fed up with all the credibility talk. A lot of times it seems to be more important than the music. Well, I guess for a lot of people it actually is. We don't care for credibility"

Mark McGrath, Musician

"As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe"

Judith Wright, Poet

"Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned"

John Holt, Educator

"Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band"

Gene Simmons, Musician

"My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons"

Gene Simmons, Musician

"The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician"

James J. Hill, Businessman

"The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden"

John Podhoretz, Writer

"I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time"

Henry Flynt, Artist

"Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world"

Jeff Goldblum, Actor

"The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about"

Diane Cilento, Actress

"It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!"

Fay Wray, Actress

"Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case"

Todd Solondz, Writer

"You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X"

Dick Gregory, Comedian

"It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory"

Edgar Degas, Artist

"The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half"

Shmuel Y. Agnon

"I quit smoking well over twenty years ago"

Shelley Berman, Comedian

"Scissors, screwdrivers and the like pose an unacceptable risk to flight crews as well passengers"

Dave Reichert, Politician

"A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur"

Douglas Hurd, Politician

"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture"

Albert J. Nock, Philosopher

"It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life"

Adam Clarke, Theologian

"I did theater when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush"

Amanda Seyfried, Actress

"I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well"

Kenneth Edmonds, Musician

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