Wells Quotes - Page 33

Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.

I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well.

Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

How well I would write if I were not here!

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.

[Adolf Hitler] hardly ever called [Eva Braun] "Eva." He had many Austrian diminutives for her. He called her "Evi" quite often as well as Schatzerl, Evchen, as well as other Austrian expressions.

If you ever make anything too literal you might as well forget it. It loses everything.

I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).

Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.

I have proven to the world that I am articulate, I am very intelligent, I'm well exposed.

Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

Do well and right and let the world sink.

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

Even as a kid- do all kids think about this? I hope they don’t, I hope my kids don’t think about this- I was always thinking about, "Well, what are we doing? What is this all about?"

A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.

The life you save may very well be your own.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

Say you are well, or all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them true.

I came from another county. I spent 15 years in Wells, but I was treated like an outsider. It was like, "Oh, you're not local."

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

If I have to be a monotheist, y'know pick one, I'm picking vodka, it goes well with everything, all occasions.

When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.

As you grow older, you will discover that your mind is the only truly limiting factor in your life. With a well developed mind you can go anywhere and do whatever. But nothing comes automatically and the best things don't come easy.