Well Quotes

"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

"At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book"

Jonathan Kozol, Writer

"Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept"

Gil Gerard, Actor

"First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures"

George J. Mitchell, Politician

"The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well"

Ernest Istook, Politician

"The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of"

Gary Lucas

"It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States"

Elena Kagan, Judge

"To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets"

Dan Castellaneta, Actor

"In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well"

Cliff Stearns, Politician

"If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress"

Dick Thornburgh, Politician

"It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained"

Jean-Jacques Annaud, Director

"I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away"

Indra Nooyi, Businessman

"In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it"

Marie Windsor, Actress

"Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it"

Marc Davis, Artist

"It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well"

Lewis B. Smedes

"I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there"

Leo Kottke, Musician

"My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me"

Claiborne Pell, Politician

"With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use"

Bjarne Stroustrup, Scientist

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one"

Charles Mackay, Poet

"What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"I am also a hard worker and people are sometimes surprised to see that as well"

Christina Milian, Musician

"Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination"

Chad Smith, Musician

"Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible"

Catherine Keener, Actress

"If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics"

Eleanor Clift, Journalist

"I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings"

Dick Van Patten, Actor

"'m really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt"

Dwight Yoakam, Musician

"It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served"

Diane Watson, Politician

"When you're out there with thousands of people it's probably better to have a bigger show to look at, and it turned out really well and they videoed it for me"

Cliff Richard, Musician

"Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion"

Etty Hillesum, Lawyer

"I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received"

Bill Dixon, Musician

"Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording"

Charlie Daniels, Musician

"Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop"

Dorothy Height, Activist

"The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well"

Diego Maradona, Athlete

"I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words"

Arthur Hailey, Novelist

"Comics don't like to see other comics do well"

Carrot Top, Comedian

"The actors I would like to work with are Julia Roberts, just because I've admired her work for a long time, well Brad Pitt. I think you know my reasons"

Christina Milian, Musician

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