Works Quotes

Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.

I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on.

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.

It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.

Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook - they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing - so there's really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

People send everyone hate mail. That's the way the world works right now, I'm nothing special.

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

Everything works out how it should.

Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

I think families find a dynamic that works for them.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

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

We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.