Works Quotes

In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.

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.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

I'm always a little starstruck anyway. So to work with a movie star, which is Brad, I was excited about that; to work with a movie legend, which is Tony, I wouldn't have passed that up. Just to get to watch him and watch how he works.

The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.

More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

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

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.

Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.

Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

This is not about being liberal. This is not about being conservative. This is about making sure our government works for all Americans.

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

With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together.

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

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

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

I always find that when I do something that I like, from my heart, then it works.

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.

I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

The first bill that President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I think it says something about his priorities that the first bill he put his name on has my name on it too. As he said that day with me by his side, 'Making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone.'

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.

Let Catholics build their own churches and works.

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

I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.