W Quotes
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“Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.”
“Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.”
“Well, I never been to HeavenBut I been to OklahomaWell, they tell me I was born thereBut I really don't rememberIn Oklahoma, not ArizonaWhat does it matter, what does it matter?”
“Well, I never been to SpainBut I kinda like the musicSay the ladies are insane thereAnd they sure know how to use itThey don't abuse it, never gonna lose itI can't refuse it.”
“Well, I never danced with the 'Pips' - they didn't let me dance!”
“Well, I never got to meet Jack Nicholson.”
“Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did.”
“Well, I never made a record to be in the Christian market. So when I made my record it was to exist in all of the markets. I grew up not really listening to tons of Christian music and if I did it was in the context of all the other music I listened to. So when I made the record I definitely had plans and visions and dreams.”
“Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.”
“Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.”
Source: Of Mice and Men
“Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.”
“Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.”
“Well, I play Jews and parrots. Parrots are how I've branched out.”
“Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school.”
“Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking.”
“Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways.”
“Well, I quite like animals, but theyre unpredictable. I mean, look at old whats-his-name in Vegas. Tiger dragged him off the stage, you know? The guy brought up tigers. Theyre quite unpredictable.”
“Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.”
“Well, I really didn't enjoy some of the movies I did when I was young.”
“Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.”
“Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.”
“Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.”
“Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.”
“Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.”
“Well, I refer to Celebrity Jeopardy as the short-bus Jeopardy, because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole column basically naming stores in New York.”
“Well, I remember this girl. I am not whole without her. I am not alive without her. When she was with me I was more alive than I have ever been, and not only when she was pleasant either. Even when we were fighting I was whole.”
Source: Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962
“Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!”
“Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?”
“Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.”
Source: The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Six Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author ...
“Well, I see myself in the same business but a lot more successful and doing more movies maybe behind the camera. I plan to do some growing in this industry and take it as far as I can.”
“Well, I should like a plan that doesn’t result in the death of my heir. (Eli) Would a good maiming be considered over-the-top? (Varyk)”
Source: Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay.”
“Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.”
“Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still — that's how you build a future.”
Source: Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge
“Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.”
“Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.”
“Well, I started out down a dirty road Started out all alone And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town lit up, the world got still I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, the good ol' days may not return And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, some say life will beat you down Break your heart, steal your crown So I've started out for God knows where I guess I'll know when I get there I'm learning to fly around the clouds But what goes up must come down”
“Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?”
“Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.”
“Well, I started years ago with Flashdance and we also did Coyote Ugly, so I have put my toe in the water before with romantic comedies. I love making them and I love making people laugh. That's a trademark that I don't think any producer would turn down.”
“Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.”
“Well, I suppose he’s stuck with you forever then.” “Yes, and forever is a very long time.” He pauses and then says, “Well, for the record, something tells me he wouldn’t have it any other way.”
“Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!”
“Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.”
“Well, I suppose I've never really had a lifestyle that needs upkeep. I don't get cabs; I'm on the Tube with my Oyster card.”
“Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.”
Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
“Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me”
“Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.”
“Well, I take great comfort in the words of the apostle Paul who said, ‘What I will to do, that I do not practice. But what I hate, that I do.’ And he said, ‘It is no longer I who do it, but the sin that dwells within me. But who,’ he asks, ‘will deliver me from this body of death?’ And he answers for himself and for me, ‘Through Jesus Christ the Lord.'”
“Well, I talk about one moment in the book, but I don't know if that's my moment of discovery. It was a moment. In the book, I talk about how I started shooting, how I became a photographer.”