Well Quotes

"He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?"

Robert Adamson, Philosopher

"Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling"

Dean Stockwell, Actor

"The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games"

John Hume, Politician

"One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"The league, is doing well. It is just a matter of trying to sort some things out with my contract"

Cobi Jones, Athlete

"Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality"

Cordell Hull, Public Servant

"I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved"

Allan Carr, Director

"Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home"

James Lee Burke, Author

"Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well"

Bonnie Tyler, Musician

"Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity"

Alcaeus, Poet

"I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for"

Joe Murray, Artist

"I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story"

Eric Brown, Writer

"The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure"

Robert C. Solomon, Educator

"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others"

John Andrew Holmes, Journalist

"There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals"

Ramsey Clark, Public Servant

"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now"

P. T. Barnum, Entertainer

"I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well"

Marian McPartland, Musician

"So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God"

Warren Jeffs, Criminal

"I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision"

Barber B. Conable, Jr.

"Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

"Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables"

Vernon Duke, Composer

"And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal"

Steve Case, Businessman

"With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift"

Justin Guarini, Musician

"Show's going well. New season starting, we're on the road"

Carson Kressley, Celebrity

"Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want to involve the character into the DC Universe even if it meant more sales, to the point where we sort of upset the balance that we have at the moment"

Garth Ennis, Writer

"I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well, so I enjoy approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of"

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Actor

"I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad"

Whitey Ford, Athlete

"All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me"

Philip Gibbs, Journalist

"It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known"

Robert Atkins, Celebrity

"When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well"

Marcel Carne, Director

"America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed"

Allen Boyd, Politician

"OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality"

Janet Suzman, Actress

"Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well"

Ian St. John, Athlete

"I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well"

Tim Scott, Politician

"Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people"

Larry Hagman, Actor

"There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level"

Gary Numan, Musician

"It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy"

Diana Wynne Jones, Writer

"The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination"

Anita Hill, Professor

"Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic"

Charles Sanders Peirce, Philosopher

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