Works Quotes
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Whatever good works ye send on before death... ye shall find with God.
Elijah Muhammad
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Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.
John Calvin
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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.
George Bernard Shaw
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In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.
Antonio Gates
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I wear scarves all the time. Even in the summer, I wear scarves - even a thin one. My old vocal teacher told me that, and I stick to it. The only time I get sick is when I forget to wear my scarf. I don't know, it might be mental, but it works for me.
Ravyn Lenae
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When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
Jonathan Ive
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
Bob Hartley
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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.
Stephen Greenblatt
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A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.
Wendy Beckett
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A crazy action only works if there's a great reaction.
Brett Gelman
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Marketing only really works with word of mouth.
Morgan Freeman
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Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.
Evan Esar
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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.
Amy Sillman
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We're very pleased they're coming to the table, and we hope we can achieve a program that works.
Bob DuPuy
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Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It looks simple to come up with a tablet that works, but it is not, ... In order to have the power and portability you need, you need power. The screen is the part of the device that uses the most power.
Esther Dyson
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The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.
Terence McKenna
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You can do anything you want, as long as it works.
Eugene Mirman
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There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom, like Homer, nothing is known but the immortal works. The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The Chinese, the Russians, the Nazis and Saddam Hussein all agree! Gun Control Works!
Dean Armstrong
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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.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Men are always looking for what's better and women are just looking for what works.
Daryl Wein