Well Quotes

"Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon"

"You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless"

"It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well"

"I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie"

William Peter Blatty, Writer

"Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family"

Sam Rivers, Musician

"Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed"

Peter O'Toole, Actor

"I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really"

Patrick Macnee, Actor

"Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare"

Michael Moriarty, Actor

"I just want to say, that if Jesus were alive, what would he be doing? Well, he would probably be accepting and loving people how they're made. And I always say this and it's really the truth. If being 4'11 was a sin, what would I do? Well, I could wear heels and I could add a wig"

Kristin Chenoweth, Actress

"And you know, I said yesterday, you know, you know, if they're not going to - if the feds aren't going to do their job, well, then, I'm up to suing the feds to make them do their job! I mean, they sued Arizona, you know, we can sue them back! I mean, they're not - they're not enforcing the laws!"

Jan Brewer, Politician

"By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight"

Glenn Miller, Musician

"Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent"

Gael Garcia Bernal, Actor

"The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation"

Billy Ray Cyrus, Musician

"It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments"

Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is to say: It may be more complicated - but that's the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it"

Phil Condit, Businessman

"I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today"

Martha Stewart, Entertainer

"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans"

Van Wyck Brooks, Critic

"We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities"

Taylor Hackford, Director

"I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project"

Ron Glass, Actor

"The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well"

Roger Clemens, Athlete

"I can do anything I want to do really, I might as well"

Robbie Williams, Musician

"On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say"

Phil Collins, Musician

"What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises"

Peter Garrett, Musician

"Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear"

Paul Giamatti, Actor

"There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces"

Charles Kennedy, Politician

"The whole of our national sport is not doing very well"

Ted Dexter, Athlete

"Ummm... well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing, which sounds obvious, but it's really not"

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show"

Jimmy Stewart, Actor

"Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy"

Nina Totenberg, Journalist

"I know I always worked hard on making sure we came out with the best possible product and of course we were working with four other people, you have to balance that as well"

Chris Squire, Musician

"If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do"

Nathaniel Smith, Politician

"In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

"Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life"

Louis Auchincloss, Novelist

"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them"

Martin Henry Fischer

"When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!"

Jonathan Demme, Director

"Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive"

John French Sloan, Artist

"I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist"

Henry Brooks Adams

"When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working"

Lee Hazlewood, Musician

"People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant"

Ellen DeGeneres, Comedian

"Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that"

Mats Sundin, Athlete

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