Works Quotes

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.

It's fascinating how life works.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you're with somebody.

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.

Truth is what works.

I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films!

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

You never know why something works or doesn't.

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.

God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.

I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

I've got a young man who works for me who says you don't need to discover your dreams - you need to recover them.

I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

I have an American top hat that's collapsible and works as a frisbee.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

Nobody works harder than Lady Gaga. Nobody. She is unbelievable. I don't know how she sleeps, or when or if.

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

I feel honesty always works.

Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.

Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.

Let Catholics build their own churches and works.

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

Words of love, are works of love.

I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

Free love never works.

I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.