W Quotes
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“Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.”
“Well, this week's peeve might be... when art writers talk about an artist's 'efforts,' meaning their work. It always sounds patronizing to me, like 'I'll give you an E for effort.' How about the artist's 'effortlessnesses' instead? It's certainly something, or at least the appearance of something, that I aspire to myself.”
“Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.”
“Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.”
“Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades who also happens to be Muslim.”
“Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.”
Source: Conversations with Julian Barnes
“Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.”
“Well, to have some teams come at you like Montreal did, it’s definitely flattering, and I think it was good for me to also set a precedent for players like me and how important we can be to teams. That was something I was happy to do as well, you know? Sometimes players like me are maybe overlooked or not looked at as an important piece to the puzzle, but it was something I wanted to prove and wanted to show.”
“Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.”
“Well, to me, the tensile strength and the very definition of an artist is something that I would place at the top of a vertical hierarchy. To be an artist is to suffer and to lead a life without shelter. It takes a great amount of daring-do, self reinvention, imagination, familial loyalty, sacrifice, economic uncertainty, and the right to be wrong, the right to fail in order to achieve something of noticeable value.”
“Well, to put it delicately, she has the power to suck out people's brains.”
“Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn-around.”
“Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.”
“Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'”
“Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income.”
“Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And people dress wilder, I think, at the Grammys.”
“Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.”
“Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose. It was a war that was declared against us as Americans, against our people, against our Constitution.”
“Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He's definitely a cowboy. He's from Texas.”
“Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is the third one to premiere here in the same theater on the same day at the same time - they are my audience. They're the people that I think about while I'm writing, directing, and editing. I specifically make movies for them.”
“Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.”
“Well, truth be told it was the hope on the last one, it's always the hope. It's just you don't just wasn't to do it- everything we do is, for a lack of a more crass term, everything we do is pushing against the conveyer belt.”
“Well, TV does a better job. In film, the justification has been that movies focused on stories or featuring people of color don't make money.”
“Well, TV series tie you up. You can't do films while you're doing a TV series.”
“Well, uh, all people - all, I think all human begins, uh, have good attributes, and they also have their flaws.”
“Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19.”
“Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.”
“Well, unless you're Wayne Gretzky or Michael Jordan, you need the full support of your team.”
“Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.”
“Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.”
“Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Well, usually when a person shakes their head," said McGonagall coldly, "they mean 'no.' So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans.”
“Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.”
“Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.”
“Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know”
Source: The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know. Here, where we are standing, they lived, and walked, and talked, and slept, and carried on their business. Here they stabled their horses and feasted, from here they rode out to fight or drove out to trade. They were a powerful people, and rich, and great builders. They built to last, for they thought their city would last for ever.”
Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…
“Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.”
Source: The Fairyland Series
“Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.”
“Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?”
“Well, we all age, but Id been taking herbal supplements for a long time.”
“Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.”
“Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.”
“Well, we are Americans. I've always believed that you work with where you are - I am a Mormon woman who was raised on the edge of the Great Salt Lake in the American West in the United States of America. But, by the same token, much of my life has been spent resisting traditional forms of democracy, resisting traditional forms of orthodoxy, be it the United States government or the Mormon Church.”
“Well, we are men. Let's start acting like it.”
“Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago.”
“Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.”
“Well, we became a vegetarian. But that didn't last very long, because, um, I don't like vegetables. Or salad, nothing like that!”
“Well, we better be quick and not become human popsicles. I’m going to be really upset at you if I freeze to death. (Shahara)”
“Well, we can ride together for a while longer. The highway south is farther along this way. I'll be glad of some cheerful company." "First time anyone's said that about me," Halt replied.”
“Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.”