Works Quotes

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.

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.

Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me.

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

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.

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.