Works Quotes

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.

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.

I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like "Too Sentimental" is a different thing for us, but it works and we love the way they all came out. There's definitely varied songs on there.

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going.

It's fascinating how life works.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?

I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.

I think they got caught up in how much money they could get from each of the city governments as far as tax rebates. But that stuff works when you make money. It's a little bit phantom money.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

Every director works differently.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.