Well Quotes

"I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots"

"I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for"

Christopher Parker, Actor

"The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible"

Nelson Algren, Novelist

"Hit the ball pretty solid. Haven't played a lot of golf this year, so was really unsure of what it would be like. I've been playing pretty well lately, especially hitting the ball solid"

Trent Dilfer, Athlete

"Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies"

Tran Duc Luong, President

"Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes"

Tommy Douglas, Clergyman

"The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man"

Arthur Young, Writer

"I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?"

Rudolf Bing, Musician

"Well I'm a longtime AOL subscriber and I love the whole thing. I'm an email junkie and I love the internet, though 7th Heaven doesn't give me much free time to surf these days"

Stephen Collins, Actor

"It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them"

Timothy Spall, Actor

"What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones"

Winifred Holtby, Novelist

"I wouldn't say one is easier or more difficult, but when you're inside a costume and a mask, you have to endure heat - and, often, difficulty seeing. The vision is not very good in a mask. And you have to cope with that, as well as trying to think about this character"

Warwick Davis, Actor

"Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition"

Orrin Hatch, Politician

"Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale"

Sergey Brin, Businessman

"I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving"

Sylvia Pankhurst, Activist

"It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness"

Sloan Wilson, Novelist

"I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down"

Richard Rogers, Architect

"Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record"

Roger Maris, Athlete

"Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently"

James Wolfensohn, Businessman

"In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set. I didn't want the set to be boring. So I'd moved some older songs onto the autoharp, and they worked really well"

P. J. Harvey, Musician

"You remember all those phrases about how "these people" - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese"

Neil Sheehan, Journalist

"I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!"

Michael Welch, Actor

"The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself"

Dee Brown, Novelist

"The team pulled together very well, whatever we tried worked"

David Gower, Athlete

"I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light"

Ang Lee, Director

"One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well"

Matthew Hayden, Athlete

"That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency"

Mary McAleese, Statesman

"Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama"

Laura Ingraham, Celebrity

"Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry"

Laura Ingraham, Celebrity

"It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself"

Michael Welch, Actor

"If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well"

Lisa Snowdon, Model

"A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull"

Louis Auchincloss, Novelist

"I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working"

Les Paul, Musician

"We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do"

Dave Blood, Musician

"You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly"

Lee Westwood, Athlete

"This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music"

Victoria de los Angeles, Musician

"The stadiums are like none I've ever seen. I think there must have been some strong competition nationally between Korea and Japan to make the best facilities because they are very well designed"

Lamar Hunt, Entertainer

"Treat your body well, and it'll see you through for many years"

Johnny Weissmuller, Actor

"Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods"

Jon Voight, Actor

"As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well"

John Hurt, Actor

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