Well Quotes

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.

If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.