Well Quotes

"You know, a lot of people say they didn't want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow"

Johnny Damon, Athlete

"Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot"

Nigel Dennis, Writer

"You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way"

Nia Vardalos, Actress

"Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side"

John Fahey, Musician

"Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight"

John Fahey, Musician

"During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus"

Michel Patini

"I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well"

Omar Sharif, Actor

"Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize"

Oliver Stone, Director

"So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do"

Jackie Cooper, Actor

"I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was"

Jackie Cooper, Actor

"I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done okay, but I've always fought against it"

Michael Gambon, Actor

"Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure"

Nora Roberts, Author

"I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes"

Mose Allison, Musician

"Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested"

Jack Bruce, Musician

"One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy"

John Gardner, Novelist

"My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood"

Jim Caviezel, Celebrity

"Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that"

Holly Valance, Musician

"You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible"

Gordon Brown, Politician

"The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well"

Steven Soderbergh, Director

"Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West"

Viktor Yushchenko, Statesman

"Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites"

J. Philippe Rushton, Psychologist

"After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life"

Joseph Brodsky, Poet

"I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started"

Martha Gellhorn, Journalist

"As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster"

Thomas Guthrie, Clergyman

"That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson"

Clare Short, Politician

"Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar"

John Fahey, Musician

"I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well"

Shirley Manson, Musician

"Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors"

Major Taylor, Athlete

"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived"

Harold Kushner, Clergyman

"I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected"

Roberta Flack, Musician

"Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket"

Lillian Gordy Carter, Celebrity

"I have concluded that the U.N. can do a few things well"

Gordon Smith, Politician

"There was a tremendous amount of disappointment in missing the World Cup finals in 1998, so they're getting excited about this one and I really think we could do well in the Far East"

Robbie Keane, Athlete

"You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well"

William P. Leahy, Educator

"No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well"

William P. Leahy, Educator

"I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense"

Tina Weymouth, Musician

"One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends"

Christopher Knight, Actor

"All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families"

Jeff Sessions, Politician

"I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God"

Smokey Robinson, Musician

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