Well Quotes

"We played well in Kenya. We didn't lose a game and we bowled Pakistan out for 100 twice. We don't need to change much from that for this tournament"

Shane Warne, Athlete

"So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well"

Scott Hamilton, Athlete

"And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well"

Scott Hamilton, Athlete

"We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation"

Joshua Micah Marshall, Politician

"With guests who are 'in the middle of the fight,' we're able to hear their point-of-view on the topics, as well as advance our own feelings"

Sean Hannity, Writer

"Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore"

Brian Boitano, Athlete

"You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet"

Robert Smith, Musician

"With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much"

Victoria de los Angeles, Musician

"Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time"

Terry Riley, Composer

"Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers"

Jimmy Griffin, Musician

"When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either"

William Masters, Scientist

"I think the big thing I've had going for me in that regard has been the success of the league. I don't have quite as much control over things as people believe, so I frequently receive more credit than I deserve, and occasionally more criticism as well"

Pete Rozelle, Celebrity

"If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance"

Anne Bradstreet, Poet

"We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements"

W. Averell Harriman, Politician

"Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin"

Victoria de los Angeles, Musician

"The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance"

Ruth Gordon, Actress

"If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer"

Mary Oliver, Poet

"I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games"

Marion Jones, Athlete

"There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village"

Roma Downey, Actress

"My wife taught me the importance of living well"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

"Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck"

Adam Clymer, Journalist

"A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived"

Vanessa Redgrave, Actress

"I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing"

Tom Cruise, Actor

"The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time"

Luis Bunuel, Director

"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well"

Steve Brown, Musician

"Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression"

James F. Byrnes, Politician

"They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well"

Laurent Jalabert, Athlete

"Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!"

Ryan Phillippe, Actor

"Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested"

T. Berry Brazelton

"Well, you know, what's so exciting, is that it was a really telling campaign as well. Whenever we start looking at the differences, they could never be more clear"

Katherine Harris, Politician

"They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion"

Ginger Baker, Musician

"Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms"

George G. Simpson

"Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years"

Travis Barker, Musician

"If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well"

Stephen Hopkins

"The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's belly"

Thomas Malory, Author

"Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life"

Sean O'Casey, Playwright

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