Wells Quotes · Page 100

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

— Jane Austen

I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.

— Jessica Lange

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

— Anonymous

Without Valentine's Day, February would be... well, January.

— Jim Gaffigan

Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security.

— Mark Hatfield

My looks had gone from well-kempt cheerleader to apocalyptic disasterpiece.

— Kresley Cole

It is not money that makes you well dressed: it is understanding.

— Christian Dior

Might as well face it, you're addicted to love.

— Robert Palmer

It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something…

— Maria Montessori

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan served this country well, he did not celebrate his birthday, he celebrated it for teachers.

— Narendra Modi

Practice humility constantly. Whenever you start to think well of yourself, push those thoughts aside. Whenever you think ill of yourself, push…

— Frederick Lenz

Do what you do so well that those who see you do what you do are going to come back to see…

— Walt Disney

When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, "Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order…

— Zadie Smith

I don't really have time [to babysit my twin cousins]. And, well, I actually have my own babysitter sometimes.

— Emma Roberts

I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months…

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as…

— A. J. Liebling

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well…

— Henri Poincare

On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once…

— Lana Parrilla

I don't like dates. If you meet someone that you like then meet them out somewhere. That's good because that's comfortable. I…

— Vince Vaughn

[Adviser is] the ones who do the job very well are the ones who lay out the range of options, filter down…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Questions are the important thing, answers are less important. Learning to ask a good question is the heart of intelligence. Learning the…

— Roger Schank

Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday…

— John Tenniel

Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds, And seen men put them all to shame with poor,…

— Henry Van Dyke

The Circle had been less than thrilled by its choice, but we'd finally come to terms. As in, they were no longer…

— Karen Chance

Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have…

— James Vila Blake

In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Desire is the putting of my will into God’s concern. It’s not a passive, sitting back in your easy chair, folding your…

— Jim Elliot

Friedrich Hayek .. seems to have been the first to postulate what is the core of this paper, namely, the idea of…

— Joaquin Fuster

I sleep equally well in a soft bed or on the grass beside the road. If I am given food and shelter,…

— Peace Pilgrim

The script is like music to me. I approach it like it's a musical piece and I hear how it's supposed to…

— Rob Reiner

Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms…

— David Hockney

Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.

— David Hockney

I love to play hockey. I'm a huge hockey fan and I love to play as well.

— Sterling Beaumon

Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit.

— Margaret Chan

A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

— Stanislaw Lem

If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.

— Madeline Kahn

This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well.

— Benedetto Croce

Every man as well as every day has its lights and shades.

— Winfield Scott