Works Quotes

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.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

Capitalism works.

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.

We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

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

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid, you get attached to these characters.

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

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