Quotes on Wells

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In my family, what you had to do to receive attention was to have good conversation at the dinner table or for me to do well at school, and those were really my focuses because that was what was valued the most.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there's someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.