Works Quotes

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.

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'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

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.

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.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.

I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.

Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics.

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.