Works Quotes
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Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.
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James Lovelock is one of the great thinkers of our time. His ideas and inventions have opened up new insights into our planet and the way it works, and the story behind them will appeal to a very wide audience. I am pleased to recommend this book.
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People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.
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This has been in the works for quite some time.
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I can never think about, 'Is this going to sell? Is this going to work on radio?' I just have to get in the zone where I'm like, 'Do I love this, or do I not love this?' Essentially it all comes down to that.
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When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
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The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
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Flashback in film rarely works.
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It's funny how human nature works. You get a big guy back, and suddenly you think that the goals are just going to come.
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All works of art should begin... at the end.
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Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.
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In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.
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Men are always looking for what's better and women are just looking for what works.
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Marketing only really works with word of mouth.
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While you're learning guitar, figure out the drums, too. Not only does it help you have great timing, but it helps you understand how a band works.
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With comics, you can only really learn what you're doing wrong or what works best when you see your work published. I've been publishing comics since my 20s, and still, when I flip through any of my new comics, I still only see the things that I wish I'd done better. But that's how you learn, by seeing it.
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I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn’t want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when you’re a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
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Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.
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After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times and then one night it'll flop. And that's when I really take a hard look at myself and say: 'Well, that crowd is obviously wrong. That crowd has absolutely no idea what it's talking about.
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What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off.
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My favorite works are the ones where I get to expose what is really behind the "brands."
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The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and troubled?" It's a bit like difficult poetry.
