W Quotes
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“Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.”
“Well, everybody does it that way, Huck."
"Tom, I am not everybody.”
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“Well everybody's got a secret, son, something that they just can't face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it, they carry it with them every step that they take Till some day they just cut it loose, cut it loose or let it drag 'em down Where no one asks any questions or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town.”
“Well, everyone has a friend who holds a very special place in his life. Talking about men…a friend whom you love unconditionally and selflessly.....a friend who knows every secret of your life and who is always the first person whom you want to call when you are in some mess…a friend who tells you exactly what you want to hear. Ena was such a friend to me. My best friend – if that defines the zenith of good friendship. I would rather say, there is no definition of friendship that we shared with each other, the more I explain it, the more complicated it becomes to recite the aspects of our relationship.
She was that closer a friend to me, who knew all the nitty-gritties of my life…from every girl who ever came into my life, to passwords of my email accounts or public profiles. Absolutely everything! She was the only girl on earth I trusted blindly and cared for, truly and unconditionally. She was the only girl who could actually make me dance to her beats. We shared that deeper relationship with each other.”
Source: Best Friends
“Well everyone's a world class ground fighter until they get a punch to the face. So that's how I deal with all these ground fighters like everyone else. I hit 'em in the head and there goes your F**king black belt.”
“Well everyone's careers is a series of steps, but being the President of the Young Liberals or the President of a Liberal society at university is an important step in the Liberal Party in terms of being noticed and making your name known.”
“Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“Well, everything that's ancient must decay.' 'You can't fight time,' I must have said. And Emrys snapped back, 'It's not time I'm worried about, darling girl. The only enemy is the sea.' ...”
Source: A Study in Drowning
“Well, evil to some is always good to others.”
Source: Emma
“Well excuse me for working a miracle in just under 3 hours.”
Source: The Never Tilting World
“Well, faced with our mortality, we create stories of immortality. We strive to leave behind echoes of ourselves, reaching for infinity, eternity, on a finite, terminally ill planet!”
Source: Peruvian Nights
“Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.”
“Well, fella, as much as I’d like to stick something up your ass, it ain’t gonna be my finger or anything else on my body—sorry to disappoint.”
Source: The Billionaire Who Atoned to Me
“Well finish your story anyway."
Where was I?"
The bubonic plague. The bulldozer was stalled by corpses."
Oh, yes. Anyway, one sleepless night I stayed up with Father while he worked. It was all we could do to find a live patient to treat. In bed after bed after bed we found dead people.
And Father started giggling," Castle continued.
He couldn't stop. He walked out into the night with his flashlight. He was still giggling. He was making the flashlight beam dance over all the dead people stacked outside. He put his hand on my head and do you know what that marvelous man said to me?" asked Castle.
Nope."
'Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.”
“Well first of all I was nine weeks pregnant at the time and no one knew it. So it was - it had a whole other meaning for me not just because I had to let the dress out, you know, every few days before the actual day. But, you know, because that was the, you know, more important than anything else that was going on in my life. But in terms of actually winning I think I had been nominated four or five times before then. And every one of my co-stars had won up until that point.”
“Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.”
“Well first of all, for a criminal practice there has to be a gun. It’s pretty simple.”
“Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.”
“Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with so much feeling, jazz, blues, all those singers, they were songs that I listened to, records that my mom played for me, and then later I bought.”
“Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.”
“Well, first off. The Divine is obvious. One of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah is Az-Zhahir, The Obvious, the Conspicuous and the Clear. It's not as if you have to go anywhere or do anything to find the Divine. Do you think the Divine would play hide-and-go-seek with you?”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“Well, first there was Sadie. She came here from Scotland in 1898. She had red hair like Brigid. When she was a girl, she talked to ghosts. And when she was grown, she could summon storms. Sadie was mother to---"
"Ivy and Rose." Brigid filled in the blank.
"We know Aunt Ivy," Phoebe said. "She's very old."
"Absolutely ancient," Flora agreed. "She just turned ninety-one."
"She can make anything grow," Phoebe added.
"That's right. And Ivy's twin sister was my grandmother Rose. They say she was sweet like Phoebe and could see the future.”
Source: The Women of Wild Hill
“Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight.”
“Well folks, what do you think? Here's our choices.. Should I give Paul Bearer back to Kane? Should I shove Paul Bearer down these steps?”
“Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.”
“Well, for cool native impudence and pure innate pride, you haven’t your equal”
Source: Jane Eyre
“Well for everyone to make a study of astrology for, as indicated, while many individuals have set about to prove the astrological aspects and astrological survey enable one to determine future as well as the past conditions, these are well to the point where the individual understands that these act upon individuals because of their sojourn or correlation of their associations with the environs through which these are shown - see? Rather than the star directing the life, the life of the individual directs the courses of the stars, see?”
“Well, for her hormones, apparently all it took was saving her life, an unexpected kiss, and hauling her off like some sort of wolf caveman, to turn her into an adventurous vixen.”
Source: Cowboy Wolf Trouble
“Well, for me, gratuitous abstinence is just as bad as gratuitous sex.”
“Well for me, putting on makeup makes me stronger."
"Wuh? What're you saying? Have you lost your mind? Caking on powder isn't gonna make you stronger in a fight."
"Not at all. It's my heart that becomes stronger. When I put makeup on, I can become the person I always wanted to be. I feel so happy and it gives me the drive to keep going. This isn't just limited to makeup, either. Love itself can make anyone stronger."
"You're insane. Your heart? So what if your heart becomes stronger? What will that accomplish?"
"I see... you have no idea how that feels. You poor thing.”
Source: Wind Breaker 10
“Well for me, courage means having the courage to walk off the edge of what is known, with complete faith that you're not going to go crashing to the bottom. Stepping outside of your own self-perceived boundaries and limitations.”
“Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.”
“Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labor of its fabrication.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood
“Well,' Frederick had said, 'I will see what can be arranged, Archie. But I will not have the girl frightened or compromised.'
'You sound like a grandfather who has raised fifteen daughters and is now starting on his granddaughters, Freddie,' Lord Archibald had said. 'It is most disconcerting.”
Source: Dancing with Clara
“Well from a personal perspective, quitting drinking is a decision I felt good about.”
“Well, fuck you. And the eagles you rode in on.”
Source: Heir to the Underworld
“Well-functioning cafes make a significant contribution to the mental health of their communities.”
Source: Nanima: Spiritual Fiction
“Well,” Gavin drawls, “at least now I know what to do if that ever happens. I’ll throw a jar of honey and run like hell.”
Source: The Falconer
“Well, gentlemen, I have listened to all your Solutions, and I now inform you that I, and I alone, except perhaps for Walt Trowbridge and the ghost of Pareto, have the perfect, the inevitable, the only Solution, and that is: There is no Solution! There will never be a state of society anything like perfect!
"There never will be a time when there won't be a large proportion of people who feel poor no matter how much they have, and envy their neighbors who know how to wear cheap clothes showily, and envy their neighbors who can dance or make love or digest better.”
Source: It Can't Happen Here
“Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.”
“Well? Get your suff. You're already late for the appointment or you want we should hug as well?"
Marcus snorted appreciating his brother's attempts to lighten the situation. "Not even if you suddenly morphed into Miss World.”
Source: Some Guys Need a Lot of Lovin'
“Well Getaway was a script that was submitted to us for production and I read it and thought it would be a cool movie to make.”
“Well, girls always love assholes,” said Platt, not bothering to dispute this. “Haven't you noticed?” No, I thought bleakly, untrue. Else why didn't Pippa love me?”
Source: The Goldfinch
“Well. go and get her. I want to meet her," Killian insisted, running his hand through his thick black hair to neaten it. He flashed his lady killer smile.
"She's sleeping, and I'm not going to wake her just to inflict you on her. She went through a traumatic experience last night."
"If your fucking is bad enough to be classified as a trauma, you're doing it wrong, baby brother.”
Source: Heart of the Winter Prince
“Well, go on then, Abby; run along and let the nice man compromise you.”
Source: The Autumn Bride
“Well, God's not real... and I am so, do that with that.”
“Well, good afternoon, sunshine. How are you feeling?"
"Like something the cat dragged in, then dragged back outside to leave in the rain, and mud, then the lightning hit it, and burned it, and the cat came back to tear it into pieces, before burying it.”
Source: Racing Outside the Line
“Well, good-bye for now," he said, rolling his neck as if we hadn't been talking about anything important at all. He bowed at the waist, those wings vanishing entirely, and had begun to fade into the nearest shadow when he went rigid.
His eyes locked on mine wide and wild, and his nostrils flared. Shock—pure shock flashed across his features at whatever he saw on my face, and he stumbled back a step. Actually stumbled.
"What is—" I began.
He disappeared—simply disappeared, not a shadow in sight—into the crisp air.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.”
“Well, Greg, I think that it just means that even after somebody dies, you can... you can still keep learning about them, you know, their life. It can keep unfolding itself to you just as long... just as long as you pay attention to it.”
Source: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl