Home / Topics / Wells Quotes

Wells Quotes

Browse 32440 quotes about Wells.

Wells Quotes

“Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.”

Ifs Wells Sometimes Done Enough Pieces Information Periods Research Scripts Homework

Author:Mads Mikkelsen

“Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.”

Wells Periods Intense

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.”

Wells Littles War Country Wanted Pieces Periods Posts Germany Little Time Post War

Author:Stephen Daldry

“My mother is somebody who I think of as having just an intense close focus. She's somebody who really can pay very, very close attention to the thing she's focusing on for a very long period of time, and that has served her incredibly well in her professional career. She knows - the things she knows, she knows them just so deeply.”

Thinking Knows Wells Long Mother Pay Attention Careers Focus Periods Intense Long Periods Of Time Professional Career

Author:David Plotz

“It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.”

Wells Has Beens Soul Hard Genius Hero Periods Ambition Saint Your Soul Captains

Book:A Preface to Morals

Source: A Preface to Morals

“The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.”

Wells Our Lives Youth Depends Periods Fortune Employing

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?”

Thinking Wells Looks Periods Draws Mirrors Grim

Author:David Hockney

“We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.”

Wells Long Ideas Feelings Earth Young Opportunity Periods Accomplish Really Great

Author:Steve Jobs

“If you become very close to your teacher, if you do well in your meditation, a deep emotional bond will develop between both of you over a period of time. You can be thousands of miles away from your teacher and find that induction is always taking place. That's the ideal.”

Ifs Wells Teacher Meditation Emotional Periods Ideals Miles Enlightened Miles Away Deep Emotional

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Stupid word, that. Period. In America it means 'full stop,' like in punctuation. That's stupid as well. A period isn't a full stop. It's a new beginning. I don't mean all that creativity, life-giving force, earth-mother stuff, I mean it's a new beginning to the month, relief that you're not pregnant, when you don't have to have a child.”

Giving Wells Mean Children Earth America Mother Force Stuff Creativity Stupid Months Periods Relief Pregnant New Beginnings Punctuation

Author:Michelene Wandor

“In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to [by both] the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.”

Source: Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New