Works Quotes

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.

I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible.

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

I'm crazy, I'm nuts. Just the way my brain works. I'm not normal. I think differently.

Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem, I will continue to push for strong measures that beef up security at our borders.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

I didn't care where my works were published.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.

My style has definitely evolved. When I first started out I think I was a little all over the place and the clothes kind of wore me rather than the other way round. But now I'm at the point where I'm comfortable dressing for me, I know what works and what I like.

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

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

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

It's like any great medicine that works. It tastes absolutely lousy going down, but ultimately helps and heals you. And that's what Juilliard was. Juilliard is classical training. They don't really want to focus on what you do well - that's what got you into the school. They're training you to do other stuff well, which may not come easily to you.

That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.

And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.