Works Quotes

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 would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

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.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.

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.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

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.