Top 100 Well What Quotes
#1. Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.
Amy Smart
#2. Well? What do you have to say to that?" Jason asked.
Taylor cocked her head. "Don't you think we should have sex first?
Julie James
#3. I drew a vicious cartoon of an Islamic extremist as a dog, knowing full well what an insult that was is in the Islamic world. Furthermore, I added an apology to dogs everywhere (being a dog lover myself).
Terry Mosher
#4. Wow," Mira said, looking around, "super fun."
"When do they bring out the pig's blood and dump it on the head of the awkward girl with telekinetic powers?" Sebby asked.
"Not until ten, I think."
"Well, what are we supposed to do until then? This was not well planned.
Kate Scelsa
#5. Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone.
Frederick Lenz
#6. I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
Alexander Payne
#7. Well, what I try to do is throw as much mud on the wall as I possibly can and just see what sticks, what shines as quirky or more interesting that the others, and I try to cling onto that one, somehow join a link from there to there.
Guy Ritchie
#8. You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a 'Tom Ford' jacket? What do I believe in?
Tom Ford
#9. No one is more vulnerable to fear than a man who keeps another in bondage. He will do anything to prevent justice from rearing its head - for he knows well what he deserves at the hands of those he subjugates.
Jane Jensen
#10. The effective executive, therefore, asks: "What can my boss do really well?" "What has he done really well?" "What does he need to know to use his strength?" "What does he need to get from me to perform?" He does not worry too much over what the boss cannot do.
Peter F. Drucker
#11. I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?
Faith Hill
#12. It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?
Jonathan Miller
#13. Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?
Rachel Cohn
#15. Well, what happened is that I had been the subject of vicious attacks by Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.
Robert Scheer
#16. You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.
Edmund Vance Cooke
#17. If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?
David Nicholls
#18. Hello? ... No I'm sorry no Shaquita here. Well what number did you dial?.. No it's a nine not a seven ... Well try it if it doest work call me back we'll figure this thing out.
Katt Williams
#19. I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
Tamara Tunie
#20. Well what would you have us do, Jason? Swan into a hardware store without any cash and say "give us your best rack or we'll set the adorable button-nosed robots on you for bunny-boiler death by cuddling?" Jared Thomas in Red Gods Sing
Trevor Barton
#21. There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.
Coco Chanel
#22. Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.
Philip Connors
#23. The voice on the telephone seemed to be sharp and peremptory, but I didn't hear too well what it said, partly because I was only half awake and partly because I was holding the receiver upside down
Raymond Chandler
#24. When we work hard, we must eat well. What a joy, that you can receive Holy Communion often! It's our life and support in this life - Receive Communion often, and Jesus will change you into himself.
Peter Julian Eymard
#25. Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.
John Major
#27. Well, what's the point of being a rock star if I can't bang the groupies?"
Rolling my eyes, I found myself muttering, "I thought it was supposed to be about the music?"
Griffin, unfortunately, heard y sullen comment and chose to respond to it. "No, no, I'm pretty sure it's the pussy.
S.C. Stephens
#28. People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#29. Well, what the fuck do you think we do around here, boy? Sell pancakes?"
Cassandra Gannon
#30. I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.
Ruth Rendell
#31. Oh,umm Arianna,this is Jack.He, uh, well, what did he tell you?"
"He said he was here to inspect the beds. I figured he was one of your old friends.
Kiersten White
#32. I was born a heretic. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. Susan B. Anthony, U.S. reformer and suffragist
George Washington
#33. If money can't buy you the freedom to do anything you want, well, what is the good of it?
Anne Rice
#35. Customers are still setting the technology agenda. Not just you, our customers, but your customers as well. What more and more are telling you is what kind of services they need, and how and when they want those services delivered to them. And in fact, that is just the beginning.
Carly Fiorina
#36. I remember when Tony Blair came into office, and there was a sense I was thinking, 'Well, what on Earth am I going to do now?' until I realized that's exactly what he was thinking.
Rory Bremner
#37. There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?"
Robin Williams
#38. Look back over your life. What have you consistently done well? What have you loved to do? Stand at the intersection of your affections and successes and find your uniqueness.
Max Lucado
#39. I remember Simon O'Donnell being struck with cancer during Australia's 1987 World Cup campaign. I know very well what it is like to have a teammate who has been struck with a potentially fatal disease. He fought through: managed to get himself back to 100% fitness and back to playing again.
Tom Moody
#40. Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
Louisa May Alcott
#41. The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
Gore Vidal
#42. So you think that the coco- mark well what I say, Hastings, the coco- contained strychnine?"
"Of course! That salt on the tray, what else could it have been?"
"It might have been salt." replied Poirot placidly.
Agatha Christie
#43. People always tell me "Have a nice day." Well what if I don't want to? What if I want to have a crappy day?
George Carlin
#44. Adam kept sneering, near a shout now. Yeah, well what about saving him from right now? What about the hell of thinking it's best just to fucking chop your balls off than to have your body somehow betray your stupid fucking belief system?
Emily M. Danforth
#45. Well? What could I say?
I said, Yes
Amy Plum
#46. Well, what does Dr. Spock know? Come here, little beauty; give Daddy a kiss for being so precocious." He lifted the soft little body, encased in its snug pink sleep-suit, and kissed her button of a nose. Brianna sneezed, and we both laughed.
Diana Gabaldon
#47. Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too.
Michele Bachmann
#48. I think the thrust of any child is to try to fit in and be part of it. And I can't tell you how many times my humor, you know, what I thought was humor ended up making me the outsider. Like I'd be, I go, 'It's a joke.' And they'd go, 'Well, what was funny?' And they just thought I was insane.
Howie Mandel
#49. Well, what brand of water do you drink?"
"Just what was in the faucet, sir," says Delphi humbly. "I--I did try to boil it--"
"Good God.
James Tiptree Jr.
#50. I'm trying to figure out, Chairman of what Board? People come up to me and seriously say: 'Well, what are you Chairman of?' And I can't answer them.
Frank Sinatra
#52. Well, what family doesn't have its ups and downs?
James Goldman
#53. It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.
Georges St-Pierre
#54. I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.
Tom Cruise
#55. Yeah, well, what are you going to teach me next ... how to take over the world?" I asked sarcastically.
"Good idea!" Sampson exclaimed a little too enthusiastically.
"No, bad idea!" I stressed.
"See? You are learning," Sampson said.
Jennifer Priester
#56. You're a queer?"
"That's exactly what I am. I didn't choose to be."
After a while Woody put his arm around Chuck's shoulders.
"Well, what the hell," he said. "At least you're not a Republican.
Ken Follett
#57. VLADIMIR: Well? What do we do?
ESTRAGON: Don't let's do anything. It's safer.
Samuel Beckett
#58. There are generations of women who left the workforce to be moms, and their kids grow up, and they think, "Well, what now?"
Kathryn Hahn
#59. Well, what the hell's the presidency for?
Ari Berman
#60. Dangerously well' - what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling 'too well
Oliver Sacks
#61. It is a terrible thing to find the love of your life.... You know too well what you're missing when it's gone.
Christina Baker Kline
#62. It doesn't seem like them, somehow, I said. They don't usually do good by stealth. No, Julian agreed, their left hand usually knows perfectly well what their right hand is doing.
Barbara Pym
#63. What do you do with the kid who can't read? ... Well, what he did with the kid who couldn't read was to make her his mistress. What Farley did was to make her his punching bag. What the Cuban did was to make her his whore, or one among them
so Coleman believed more often than not.
Philip Roth
#64. I have yet to see someone attack Obama over his report card. A lot of people I talk to from both sides of the fence are like, 'Well, what about this economy? What about these incidents?' There are still no answers except time, but time is the answer for everything.
Lupe Fiasco
#65. Well, what do you owe yourself? Do you dare take time out to listen to the grass grow, or can you even afford the expense of getting far enough away from life's daily cacophony to hear it grow if you took the time?
Vincent Price
#66. Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?
Mary Stewart
#67. What the hell do you want, Kid?"
"You know damn well what I want.
Ida R. Yulia
#68. Well, what do you want me to do? Head butt my way through a few inches of steel?!" she snarled.
"Well, that would certainly earn you a cookie!
S.L.J. Shortt
#69. Your greatest growth in faith will be in moments where all hope seems gone. That's where faith is born and faith births hope. Rest assured, God knows full well what the valley experience will entail, and how long the journey will take to complete His work.
Cherie Hill
#70. Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them. (from Workbook)
Steven Heighton
#71. By the way, you guys seriously screwed up just now. (Nero)
We know. (They said in unison.)
Yeah, well, what you don't know is how grateful your girl is to you. I just thought you should know that you guys are a hero to her ... and she thinks we're all idiots. (Nero)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#72. I know pretty well what evidence is, and I tell you, such evidence as that for the resurrection has never broken down yet.
John Singleton Copley
#73. [...] the reason we do not trust one another is because we do not trust ourselves. We know all too well what we are capable of.
John Burley
#74. I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, 'Well, what if I make a film in this genre? What if I make this film like this?'
Wong Kar-Wai
#75. When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
E.L. Doctorow
#77. He was lying; I could hear it the way you hear a tune and you know how it goes. I wondered how many times I'd heard him lie, to know so well what it sounded like.
Annie Barrows
#78. You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.
Nora Roberts
#79. Well, what are we waiting for? ... She said 'children.' I bet that's anyone under a couple of centuries old. Let's go.
Donita K. Paul
#80. Ought a woman to disclose her frailties earlier than the wedding day? Few husbands, I assure you, make the discovery in such good season, and still fewer complain that these trifles are concealed too long. Well, what a strange man you are! Poh! you are joking.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#81. Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?
Sharon Gless
#82. Well what are you looking at me for? If this is a democratic process, I've been outvoted," he said in exasperation. "This is why democracy doesn't work. The crazy people always outnumber the sane people.
Joseph R. Lallo
#83. You say you hate children and people always say the same thing; it would be different if it was your own child. Well what if it wasn't?
Doug Stanhope
#84. Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but
old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes.
Paullina Simons
#85. Well, what do you know, not only did it turn out her ovaries had a little spark left in them - the suckers might as well have exploded between her hip bones. When
J.R. Ward
#86. So on the one hand in school you're teachers are constantly telling you that you can be whatever it is you want to be as long as you put your mind and heart to it, and yet at the same time I was also getting the clear message of, well, what can you do really?
Sheena Iyengar
#87. Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.
Tea Leoni
#88. Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia.
Richard Rorty
#89. We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
Kage Baker
#90. He gave me a look, but in the dusk I couldn't make out very well what it conveyed. Then he bent over his mother, kissing her. "My news isn't particularly satisfactory. I'm going for you." "Oh you humbug!" she replied. But she was of course delighted. CHAPTER
Henry James
#91. You're bisexual."
Travis grimaced. "No, I'm not. I'm straight. I just am attracted to guys sometimes."
She laughed, actually laughed, albeit bitterly. "Well, what do you think bisexual is, stupid?
Brandon Witt
#92. You know when people start talking about freedom they have to be old. They gotta be old-fashioned and really out of touch. Freedom? Well, what's that? Who needs any of that?
Rush Limbaugh
#93. I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?
Mort Walker
#94. I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.
Malcolm Forbes
#95. I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'
John Cleese
#96. Bosoms," she announces, with a hand to her own, "are for bedrooms and breastfeeding. Not for occasions with dignity."
"Well, what do you want her to do, Eleanor? Leave them at home?
Kathryn Stockett
#97. Someone who has seen a house collapse knows only too clearly what frail things little vases of flowers and pictures and white walls are. He knows only too well what a house is made of.
Natalia Ginzburg
#98. Most people, originally when Google Earth first came out in 2005, they thought, well, what can I do with it? I can figure out where to go on vacation, or I can look at my neighbor's backyard from space. But the point is, you can do so much more.
Rebecca Moore
#99. Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.
Issey Miyake
#100. Well, what had I to say to you ... I loved you! there was no sense in that even before, and less than ever now. Love is a form, and my own form is already breaking up. Better say how lovely you are! And now here you stand, so beautiful ...
Ivan Turgenev
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