Well Quotes

"Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well"

"Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother"

"I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that"

"The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree"

Paul A. Volcker, Economist

"I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?"

Faith Hill, Musician

"Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising"

Leo Burnett, Businessman

"I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation"

Lee Child, Writer

"I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!"

Lea DeLaria, Comedian

"We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to work is about helping them to regain their dignity and pride. That's what families care about"

Jodi Rell, Politician

"What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

"Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well"

Lynette Fromme, Criminal

"It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me"

Lea DeLaria, Comedian

"In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well"

Edmund S. Muskie, Politician

"I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me"

Amanda Seyfried, Actress

"I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well"

David Hyde Pierce, Actor

"I'm happy to be black. I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that"

LL Cool J, Musician

"Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well"

Michael McCaul, Politician

"Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it"

Mercedes Ruehl, Actress

"Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents"

Daisy Fuentes, Actress

"It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling"

Kenneth Koch, Poet

"I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am"

Judith Guest, Novelist

"If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law"

Frederick Pollock, Judge

"Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God"

Moses Mendelssohn, Philosopher

"If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that's not really how we picked the songs"

Mike Gordon, Musician

"I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves"

Ellen DeGeneres, Comedian

"Competition is good and has served us well"

Harold H. Greene, Judge

"Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well"

Hamid Karzai, Statesman

"It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more"

Edouard Manet, Artist

"I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous"

Gene Wilder, Actor

"And in 'Frisco Kid' and in 'The Woman in Red' I had to ride badly. Then you have to really ride well in order to ride badly"

Gene Wilder, Actor

"It's a good team though that works very closely and very well together, and all those people putting that effort in, then I'm sure we will improve dramatically from where we are now as the season goes on"

David Leslie

"I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true"

Charles Vest, Educator

"Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished"

Bootsy Collins, Musician

"Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect"

Gyorgy Legeti

"Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art"

Jane Alexander, Actress

"I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!"

Christopher Eccleston, Actor

"Just because something has tubes doesn't mean it's the best. I mean, tubes are obviously good, but the circuit of this thing is designed well and it sounds good"

Dweezil Zappa, Musician

"I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories"

Tom T. Hall, Musician

"Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

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