Works Quotes

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling concept, but I think it's true.

I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

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

I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.

On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

It's important for me to sell a product that works.

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity.

The writer works in a lonely way.

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.

The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me.

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

I know nothing about platonic love except that it is not to be found in the works of Plato.

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.