Well Quotes

"Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved"

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Lawyer

"There wasn't much work around at the time, I think I found a bit in Germany or something, but we played together and somehow the bassist Laurie Baker got involved as well - I can't remember exactly how"

Jamie Muir

"If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing"

Val Kilmer, Actor

"Our men and women in uniform put their lives on the line for our nation every day; they should not have to jeopardize their financial well-being as well"

Mark Pryor, Politician

"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good"

Vaclav Havel, Leader

"Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros"

Rebecca Lobo, Athlete

"I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out"

Naomi Campbell, Model

"Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today"

Vince Gill, Musician

"I am very disciplined in my life and very up front. It is the only way I can do it and do it well. I am up every day at 7, and I feed my kids, no matter how long the day was"

Sean Hannity, Writer

"My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself"

Teri Hatcher, Actress

"I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old"

Rooney Mara, Actress

"When I was a young player, I would look at players and think, he does this well, and try and pick up good points from them, or he conducts himself well, I'll pick up on that"

Richard Gough

"I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well"

Rosemary Clooney, Musician

"I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve"

Jane Asher, Actress

"I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty"

William Whipple, Politician

"Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament"

Ron Davies, Politician

"Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well"

Martin Gore, Musician

"You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too"

Martha Reeves, Musician

"We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that's how it turned out"

Eugene Levy, Actor

"Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't"

Merton Miller, Economist

"I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write"

Mary Oliver, Poet

"You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun"

Derek Jeter, Athlete

"A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either"

Mario Monti, Public Servant

"Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone"

Martina Navratilova, Athlete

"I think we have really integrated well around Manchester. This is the place where we feel at home. We like it here, we love the English way of life and we prefer it much, much more than the south of Europe"

Ruud van Nistelrooy, Athlete

"It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend"

Louise Jameson, Actress

"The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question"

Kenneth R. Miller, Scientist

"I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well"

LaToya Jackson, Musician

"We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives"

Junipero Serra, Clergyman

"The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood"

Junipero Serra, Clergyman

"Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now well"

Junipero Serra, Clergyman

"If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"We want to raise the art of living well"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

"When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore"

Kevin Rollins, Businessman

"I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her"

Jon Fishman, Musician

"I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system"

Johnny Isakson, Politician

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