Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm used to being under pressure... luckily I perform well under pressure. — Paige VanZant Copy Share Image
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists. — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
And after a while...I mean how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every… — Tommy Davidson Copy Share Image
Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.” — Louis Bayard Copy Share Image
It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well. — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
When people say, 'I don't see you enough,' well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist, or just… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
As for 1994 [ U.S. Open], I didn't do very well, but it was a great occasion for me even though I… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
I think it's always a challenge when you're telling a story that people know. But hopefully, good storytelling - well, there's two… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between being a loner and being lonely. I'm far from lonely. My day is full of things I… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, it's a show [Daredevil ] not about a superhero, but it's about a man. Hopefully, that's… — Jon Bernthal Copy Share Image
Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are doing pretty well at getting noticed - a lot of people are doing pretty well at… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
It's a Little Leaguers game that major leaguers play extraordinarily well, a game that excites us throughout adulthood. The crack of the… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence,… — James Emanuel Copy Share Image
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better,… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
To play the guitar well is easy, to play the guitar poorly is difficult. — Pepe Romero Copy Share Image
If I don't paint for one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally. — Raphael Soyer Copy Share Image
Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image