Quotes on Wells

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.

"Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I`ll just show you this one." He showed me three.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

When the well is dry, people know the worth of water. [so appreciate what you have while you have it]

Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.

It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did, and I didn't care what people thought ... It was only boring old men who would ask me. And whenever they went, 'What? No children? Well, you'd better get on with it, old girl,' I'd say 'No! F*** off!'

When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.

The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

I believe that this could very well be looked back on as the sin of our generation...I believe that our children and their children, 40 or 50 years from now, are going to ask me, what did you do while 40 million children became orphans in Africa?

No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.

... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

Play well, or play badly, but play truly.

When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.