Works Quotes

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.

Communication works for those who work at it.

I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

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.

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.